Evaluation:
Published: 19.04.2004.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays 'On My First Sonne and Mid-Term Break', 1.
  • Essays 'On My First Sonne and Mid-Term Break', 2.
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Analysis
Heany's 'Mid-Term Break' and Johnson's 'On My First Sonne' have many things in common but there are things that are different as well.
'Mid-Term Break' (MTB) is a sad poem about the narrator's brother's death. The first paragraph has many key words that show us that the poem is not going to be a happy one. In the first line 'sick bay' gives us an idea that it will have something to with health. Also, the narrator's neighbors drove him home, instead of his parents. This tells us that something must be wrong. In the second stanza, we discover that the poem is about a funeral. In the…

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