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The term “mid-term break” is frequently attributed to the half term at schools—a short vacation season for students. However, as one of Irish poet Seamus Heaney’s poem, it represents a new period, a characteristic transition from one situation to another. Through this autobiographical poem narrating his brother Christopher's death, Heaney presents a moment of death, which may happen to anyone, as far away from emotions as possible, with all its nakedness. Contrary to the event’s ordinariness, the grief triggered by death within the family causes unusual reactions, in other words, “breaks”, in all members. Even though all people within the impact circle of the event have been intensely influenced by culture and religion and accordingly they thaped theirc characteristics in these ways, they display unexpected behaviors as a result of these breaks. In this study, including a versatile analysis of the poem from history to religion, Heaney’s sudden stepping into the nature of an adult from adolescence, and how personalities shaped by culture take on different roles in the situation of pain and grief are examined. |
