Does Tiara Really Exist?

"No gaudy scars, the bumper knocked him clear. A four-foot box, a foot for every year" One theme for the poem "Mid-Term Break" is that tragedies can happen anytime without notice. "Mid-Term Break" is a poem that expresses sadness over the sudden loss of a younger brother, expressing mixed feelings of confusion, awkwardness, and sadness. In the poem, Heaney portrays confusion and awkwardness with a handful of lines filled with imagery, mainly the lines in the sixth and seventh stanza. An example that supports this theme, "Snowdrops and candles soothed the bedside; I saw him for the first time in six weeks" (line 16-18) talks about how the narrator observes his little brother's corpse after six weeks. The imagery presented creates an awkward atmosphere since it seems like the narrator only stands there and observes the corpse, feeling sad and confused as to how his brother had died. An example from the seventh stanza, "Wearing a poppy...

Stage one; A young adolescent individual feeling the urge to run, run away from all the rules. Stage two; Teenage rebellion is what they call it. He began to change into a stranger, become an issue. But he would slowly come back, bit by bit. Stage three; As he came back, he understood. He'd matured and become less carefree, now a man doing better good.