How Is Childhood Presented In Death Of A Naturalist?

How Is Childhood Presented In Death Of A Naturalist? It describes childhood as a state of innocence and curiosity: the speaker gleefully explores the swampy “flax-dam” and thrills in the creatures that live there—butterflies, dragonflies, and tadpoles. But, in the second stanza, the speaker’s relationship to the “flax-dam” and its creatures changes. How does Heaney … Continue reading How Is Childhood Presented In Death Of A Naturalist?