Response to Death of a Naturalist-Mr Mason

AHHH KILLER FROGS!

• Why does the poet create a a sense of fear and anxiety at the end?

Heaney creates a sense of fear and anxiety to show how, when you are young, you do not mind getting dirty and messing about with nature and animals. However, when you get older you become fearful of nature and dirt, and are wary of the destrucative power it can have. Heaney is scared of the frogs he used to play with when he was young, and him running away is an metaphor to show him leaving his past and growing up.