plog 3- mid term break

in seamus heaney's poem mid-term break. we see through his diction the theme of death and the contrast of big and small and old and young.
the stark imagery in the poem shows the reader what exactly is going on in the house as the speaker walks in. we see the baby and the old men and the mother and father and all of the other event going on very clearly through the descriptive vocabulary heaney uses. we can see into the time period he wrote in also through the diction with words like sick bay and pram, words that aren't commonly used in today's language.
the contrast of big and small starts in the first stanza when the speaker is talking about "big jim evans" and in the second he talk about babies. another contrast that is seen is the contrast of old and young. we see the young college studnet and the deceased four year old in contras to the old men who stand up to shake the young one's hand and how the parents them selves are older. heaney also uses the word eldest to describe the college student which goes along with the theme of young and old.