I love cake kdskfjdskgksdfklsdj dfjsdalkfa dsfakl a fdjka dfsaklfja afkjdf dafdsajfdsaj dsgjsdfjsdlkfj kfjsd aNaturalist. Heaney uses metaphor in ‘bluebottles/Wove a strong gauze of sound around the smell’ to create a sense of the buzz of the flies creating a vibration that is so solid it is like he can feel it. This metaphor is used again in ‘The air was thick with a bass chorus’ which again makes the reverberations of the frogs’ croaks feel like something which could physically hurt him. The poet uses simile in ‘frogspawn that grew like clotted water’ to add to the disgust of the gloopy frogspawn. Seamus Heaney uses personification in ‘that if I dipped my hand the spawn would clutch it’ to make the frogspawn seem like one evil being which is out to get him.
The poet uses dissonant sounds in ‘flax had rotted there, weighted down by huge sods’ to make the sound of the squelching, decaying flax. It creates a repulsive sound.
All year the flax-dam festered in the heart
Of the townland; green and heavy headed
Flax had rotted there, weighted down by huge sods.
Daily it sweltered in the punishing sun.
Bubbles gargled delicately, bluebottles
Wove a strong gauze of sound around the smell.
There were dragon-flies, spotted butterflies,
But best of all was the warm thick slobber
Of frogspawn that grew like clotted water
In the shade of the banks. Here, every spring
I would fill jampotfuls of the jellied
Specks to range on window-sills at home,
On shelves at school, and wait and watch until
The fattening dots burst into nimble-
