The Lesson and Mid-term Break Essay -- English Literature

Introduction to The Lesson and Mid-term BreakThe Lesson tells the bilgewater of a 10 year old boy who has lost his go in the duration of school time. It goes on the say hes trappedand although he feels grief for the death of his father he realisesthat he can aim the death to bind the bullies fist.Mid-Term Break is about the loss of a brother. It goes on to saythat life goes on even though he has lost his brother and he witnessesthings he does not normally perplex (his father crying).Mid-Term BreakMeaningThe meaning of Mid-Term Break is to tell the grade of an accidentinvolving a young child and a vehicle. He tries to justify how lifegoes on and the death of the boys brother doesnt mean that lifestops. It goes on to show that because his brother has died authoritativethings happen that he doesnt usually check into I met my father crying and Old men standing up to shake my hand. It ends with the powerful andchilling draw off a iv foot box, a foot for ein truth year This shows thatthe boy was very young and had a small coffin because he was only 4years of age.StructureThe poems structure is very neat and very tidy. He chooses to write inthree line stanzas because this allows the poem to flow good andallows the stanza below it the link in with its predecessor. By alsohaving three line stanzas helps the last line have more of a punch facial expression because it breaks the mould.Heaney avoids using hoar in this piece because we usually associaterhyme with happiness and glee. Because of this reason Heaney purposelymakes this poem sad and hopeless.AnalysingThe mood changes throughout the poem. At the start the mood is sombre,sad and mysterious but when it reache... ...death.Pride, care a goldfish, flashed a sudden fin we can imagine thegoldfish swimming in their bowl, perhaps set in the sunshine on awindowsill. The sun catches a goldfish at a certain angle, and thegold of its scales dead shines brightly. The speaker, caught inthe sunshine of all this att ention and sympathy, suddenly feels prideshining in him.At no point in this poem does the speaker express sadness at the lossof his father. However, he is aware that he should feel something, andhis shame at the lack of tonicity is in conflict with his relief andhis pride. What is uppermost in the speakers mind is the confinelittle world of the school (rather like the shining prison of thegoldfish bowl). His life is centred on school, the bullying, his otherschool-mates.I think the bitter lesson he learns is about his own self-centredness.