?Death of a naturalist? is a poem about growing up and loss of innocence. The poem is organised into two sections, which follows the boy through childhood. The boy becomes a reflective Adult, from an unquestioning boy. It seems Seamus Heaney is concerned with the progression from innocence to experience. This is shown in the first paragraph when he talks like a child: ?Miss Walls would tell us how.? This shows the fact that the …showed first 75 words of 605 total…

…showed last 75 words of 605 total…at he is now beginning to experience. The conclusion I have of this poem is that it re-creates the confrontation with the fact that life is not what it seems. From a place where the boy was care free, to an ambiguous world. Heaney succeeded in creating a good poem by building up a totally convincing account of a childhood experience that deals with the excitement, pain and confusion of growing up in this world.