Comparison of Mid-Term Break, The Field Mouse, and On My First Sonne Es

Comparison of Mid-Term Break, The field of view Mouse, and On My First SonneThe above poems are written by 3 different people and on edition themthey seem to be roughly very different things. But at heart, they areab out(p) death and the pain that appears afterwards. Seamus HeaneysMid-Term Break is a memory of his four-year-old br otherwises death.Gillian Clarkes The Field Mouse is about death in a politicalconflict compared to a death in nature. Finally On My First Sonne byBen Johnson is about the death of his son and the religious view ofthe situation.Both Heaney and Johnsons poems are about the death of a close lovedone and how it is dealt with emotionally and in reality. On looking atthe title of Heaneys poem, you almost immediately assume that is ahappy one, possibly about what he spends his holidays doing. This ofcourse is not the case.Unlike the other two poems, you do not know immediately who has diedor even if there is a death. finishedout the poem he keeps us guessingwh at is happening. He gives us a clue and we have to piece it togetherlike a detective putting a jigsaw puzzle together to lick a crime.Also the fact that it is a memory and he is talking about himself as achild commemorates how badly it would have affected him and his parentsemotionally. Through Heaney talks about the reaction of all his familymembers to his brothers death, Johnson only talks about how his sonsdeath affected him.You can see that since the deceased was his first son, that he is peachemotionally very hard and seems to blame himself, but at the same timeconsulates himself by thinking that he has gone to a wagerer place. byplay 5 O, could I loose all father now. For why. seems to indicatethat he has lost a... ...connection that the rest ofus probably would not.I feel the poem that really explains the situation well is SeamusHeaneys Mid-Term Break as it keeps the person in suspense over whohas died, but delivers a shock at the end when we find out who itreally is. Th is really mixes your emotions and unlike the other 2makes you feel sorry for a death that happened over 20-30 years ago. Ialso feel it is better because it focuses on the actually death. whileHealey does fill in these criteria.Clarkes poem compares the killing of a field mouse to the killings inthe Bosnian War. Though this is clever, it does not show the badthings in the Bosnian War as in reality the killing of one field mousecannot really be literally compared to the wide killings involvingthe Muslims. The above reasons are why I think overall Seamus Heaneyspoem is the best.