Analysing 'Death of a Naturalist' by Seamus Heaney

Throughout the poem, Heaney uses multi-sensory descriptions to create vivid imagery. Heaney creates a grotesque description of the flax-dam, perhaps to foreshadow its capability to be threatening. Heaney uses onomatopoeia in the poem to convey the speaker's enthusiasm for, and then later fear of, nature. Heaney presents the power of nature by portraying the frogs as an army through the use of a semantic field. Heaney perhaps aimed to show man's insignificance vs nature and discourage us from interfering in natural processes.