Response to "Some approaches to Seamus"-Mr Mason

• Sound Effects in Death of a Naturalist

There are many examples of sound effects in "Death of a Naturalist" by Seamus Heaney. For example:

-"gargled delicately". This is an oxymoron that indicates the strangeness of nature, and shows how it can be a beautiful thing, but also very ugly.

-"gauze of sound". This in onomatopeia and is the sound that insects make when they are flying through the air, so this makes the reader feel that they are in Heaneys memory.

-"slobber". This shows the ugly aspect of a child school project growing frogspawn. This is to show the reader that even a harmless thing such as frogspwawn can be savage and ugly.

-"coarse croaking". This is alliteration used to emphasise how ugly the noise that the frogs are making is.

-Rhyme of "cocked and hopped". This is a rhyme of a hard sound and shows how nature doesn't stop, and will always look ugly when you are older. You are scared of it, unlike when you were a child.

-"farting". This is a slang word, and slang is classed as ugly and dirty words.