Dahlia's English Class Blog

In my perspective, a theme that can be found in "Mid-Term Break", which is a poem by Seamus Heaney, is that you face obstacles, challenges or hard times when you grow up. In actuality, the poem is recalling a real, and mournful event that happened to the author himself, which is when his younger brother died due to a car crash. Throughout the poem, you can feel the depressing mood the author has over this tragic incident he and his family has to go through while he himself was still growing up/maturing. Mr. Heaney uses irony to develop the gloomy mood of the poem. An example of how he uses irony in his poem, is by comparing what the whole entire poem is actually about, and the title. When you read the title, you'd presumably think that the poem is generally going to be about joy, happiness and spending time with your friends while you're away at school. But for the people who has read this poem, we all know that the poem has a cruel plot twist: one where the autho

Climbing Up a Tree by Dahlia Djami 8B He walked towards the tree, all big, round and brown, and decided that he'd challenge himself to go to the very top, and he did so, slowly but surely, He placed his feet on branches, and held tight to the branches above his head with his hands, he made sure that he held on to those branches tightly, Unless of course, he wanted to tumble back down, which he accidently did when he was 5, Slowly but surely, the man climbed up the big tree, always avoiding the thin branches, for he knew that it wouldn't support him, Unless of course, he wanted to re-enact what happened to him when he was 10, The birds chirping in the distance was his only source of company, but he didn't mind, because by then he was on the top, all safe and sound