DEATH OF A NATURALIST | SEAMUS HEANEY | WORKBOOK SOLUTIONS 🏆 SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS | VIDEO 1

welcome back everyone in today's session

I'm going to discuss seven very very

important short answer questions from

your workbook your morning star workbook

and the poem is death of a naturalist

written by Shima heini this is another

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section seven questions in today's

session and in the next video I'm going

to upload five more so a total of 12

short answer questions and

answers first one what is the question

it's there on the screen what does the

phrase all year given in the first line

of the poem death of a naturalist

suggest explain briefly what does the

speaker see when he visited the flax Dam

as described in the first stanza of the

poem so you will have to change

paragraphs and this is a five marks

answer therefore roughly one page the

length the answer now what does the

phrase all year given in the first line

of the poem

suggest death of a naturalist by Shima

heini begins with the description of a

flax dam festering in the heart of the

townland all year this is there in the

first line of the poem and the

introductory statement hence is directly

related to the question the expression

all year sets the period this is the

suggestion sets a period and time scale

number one all year and suggests

predictability routine expectation of

the speaker here presumably the poet now

we have two points here sets the period

and time scale all year throughout the

year and number two this suggests

predictability routine expectation of

the speaker her

poetx

Dam to collect frogs spawn jelly like

eggs of the

frogs

activity and throughout the year the

flags Dam festered in the heart of the

Town land so this is predictability

routine and expectation of the

speaker

something which he knows and takes

comfort in so as a child he visited the

flags Dam every year as he knew that

throughout the year the flags Dam

festered decayed rotted in the heart of

the townland so this is the first

significance of the expression all year

next the process of rotting of flax

takes place through throughout the year

all year throughout the year despite the

unpleasantness of the surrounding the

speaker describes it in a matter of fact

manner now matter of fact manner com

meaning just have a look here he

describes the entire Flags Dam the

process in a matter of fact manner

perhaps showing his visits to the place

regular

occasionally and also his observation of

it as quite a normal part of the natural

world flag Dam

or as a part quite as a normal part of

the natural world thus suggestive of his

innocence poet ch

innocent as a child so this routine this

predictability this uh expectation of

the speaker all suggest his innocence as

a child therefore all year the

expression all year is

significant and this suggests his

innocence as a child this was his

childhood activity

next next

question

answer just have a look go through it

quickly and now explain briefly what

does the speaker see when he visited the

flags Dam as described in the first

stanza of the poem in the second

paragraph We are going to describe what

he saw over there whenever he went there

when the speaker visited the flags Dam

he saw now textual quotations short

quotations correct quotations he saw

number one green and heavy-headed

flax had rotted there see I have quoted

from the text green and heavy-headed

flax rotted there weighted down by huge

sords everything is there in the poem in

the text so learn the important

quotations from the text next it

sweltered in the punishing sun again

another quotation in the punishing Sun

after

that daily bubbles goggled delicately

blue bottles wo a strong gauze of sound

around the smell all these uh pieces of

information are there in the text so I

have simply briefly given a description

of those things and then there were

dragonflies and spotted

butterflies the poet's favorite thing

was the warm and thick slobber of frog

spawn That Grew like clotted water in

the shade of the

banks thus so this is a brief

description now the conclusion thus he

saw that this place was buzzing and

humming with vibrant life a critical

comment dear boys and girls you know by

now how I write my answers I always add

critical commend if it is a five marks

short answer question add one or two

critical comments and if it is your laq

long answer question and many critical

comments analyze the answer

critically poet

that this place was buzzing and humming

with vibrant life dragon

flies blue bottles and then spotted

butterflies

frog describe buzzing and humming with

vibrant life the entire scene of the dam

was actually gross and

nauseating yet the poet found Beauty

critical comment in the creatures that

lived over there revealing his childhood

fascination with nature so this is the

critical comment section and this is

also uh your conclusion whenever you're

writing such subjective answers you must

write an appropriate introduction and

the the body where you will justify the

points justify your standpoint with the

help of textual references and at the

end always write an appropriate

conclusion a concluding

statement then you will Elevate the

quality of your answer so try to frame

your answer in this way question number

two what type of sounds and smells does

the speaker notice in the first answer

of the poem first first

mention and what is their effect on him

again two sub parts first sub

part sounds and smells let's

see shibas hini begins death of a

naturalist with a graphic description of

a Flags dam in the heart of the townland

with vivid imagery the way it it looks

smells and sounds vivid imagery auditory

imagery visual

imagery and then uh the way it looks

smells and sounds this is imagery is

important prepare a different answer

perhaps a long answer

imagery all year the flag Dam festered

and flax had rotted there daily it

sweltered in the punishing Sun thus the

entire scene appeared gross nauseating

and a rotting smell see I am writing my

answer to the

point so kesa smell a rotting smell

gross smell nauseating

smell is emitted making the surrounding

unpleasant so this is your direct to the

point answer smell what type of smell a

rotting smell pleasant smell so making

the surrounding unpleasant use words and

expressions like this rotting smell

nauseating smell gross unpleasant why

because all year the flax Dam festered

and flax had rotted there daily it

sweltered in the punishing Sun finished

now smell I will focus on the sound now

there must be logical coherence in your

answer dear girls and boys

soe Point leave it and move on to the

next one now I'm moving on to the next

section that is the sound section it was

a space buzzing and humming so these

words are examples of onom

matop see BZ

hum

sound buzzing humming with vibrant life

with the presence of blue bottles

dragonflies and spotted

butterflies Buzz

hum blue bottles dragonflies spotted

butterflies sub bubbles goggled

delicately the bubbling sound is an

auditory image image the loud sound

produced by Blue bottles seemed to the

speaker as a strong gauze of sound the

buzzing of the blue bottles mingled with

the foul smell of the flax thereby

created okay uh the buzzing of the blue

bottles mingled with the foul smell of

the flats thereby creating a powerful

image heene uses sesh IA to describe

what the speaker noticed in the first

stanza of the poem now what is this

sasia now if you read the workbook dear

students you will find this term sinesia

sinia the mixing of sound and smell and

texture is an example of a literary

device called

sinesia

or smell

sound texture landscape surrounding

natural

world mingling it mixture and therefore

this is

sinesia this is a critical comment so in

a five marks answer I have

Incorporated one or two critical

commments after this the

conclusion these smells and sounds the

analysis now are part of the natural

world in which the poet lived as a child

so this is a recollection of the poet's

childhood

memory when he used to visit the flag

stamp so uh part of the natural world in

which the poet lived as a child now the

second section of the poem what is their

effect on him insar smells and sounds C

poet

effect let's see the poet found beauty

this is the effect the poet found beauty

in the creatures that lived there the St

the stench stench foul smell was

strangely appealing to him another

effect the stench was strangely

appealing to him so found beauty number

one number two strangely appealing to

him and he did not feel repulsive or

disgusted another

effect he did not feel

disgusted such a technique helps to

convey the readers uh such a technique

helps to convey the speaker's

fascination with the natural world so in

this way he was fascinated with the

natural world and his eagerness to

explore it he was also also eager to

explore it so smells and sounds then the

effect and also critical comment at the

end a compact answer right like

this number three

question what is it let's read very

quickly why does the speaker describe

the Frog spawn as the best of all what

does it suggest about the

speaker now the answer death of a

naturalist is a recollection of the

poet's childhood experience of

collecting frog Spawn from a flag Dam

situated in the heart of the Town land

he

describes the Frog spawn as the best of

all because now the reason introductory

statement po childhood experience of

collecting frog

spawn question say Rel answer go and

then the justification he describes a

frog spawn as the best of all because

number one he finds Beauty in creatures

that live there such as the dragon flies

spotted butterflies and the jelly likee

eggs of a frog they are his favorite

things so the jelly light frogs eggs are

his favorite things he

observes them he observes let's just

write down he observes the eggs the fro

pawn and every spring he would collect

Jam pot fulls of the jelly specks to

range on Windows Sills at home on

shelves at school and wait and watch the

fascinating dots burst into Nimble

swimming tat poles so

is favorite

activity and watch or in frog

eggs

frogs swimming T pools or how did he

become so curious about this Miss walls

his teacher has taught him and his

classmates about the different types of

frogs and how to tell weather by their

color so the poet has the most liking

for the warm thick slobber That Grew

Like That Grew like clotted water in the

shade of the Bands this has been his

normal activity as a child therefore

best of all C favorite pastime of the

speaker to

curious because of the classes taken by

Miss walls or practical

life frog spawn collect wait and

watch the fattening dots did not burst

into Nimble swimming tat

pools and what does this suggest about

the speaker this suggest that the

speaker's experience of collecting frog

spawn was once filled with

wonder so this activity was once filled

with wonder he sees the frogs as the

most fascinating

creatures natural

world and therefore he used to enjoy

this so much childhood in inocence the

study of the life cycle of the frogs

arouses his curiosity and he becomes a

naturalist with the nauseating and cross

area strangely appealing to

him thus this shows his childhood

fascination with nature he has loved

this activity very much

for

years ad

El grown up

young next question number four see one

page for each answer five

marks after this question number four

let's read what would the speaker do

every spring and why a simple question

yeah a

cha answer five marks in Death of a

naturalist Shima describes a Flags dam

festering in the heart of the townland

an area buzzing and humming with vibrant

life same reference material

here to frame the answers so these are

reference materials dear students read

all your reference materials and frame

the answers according to the question

work it's just how you frame your answer

and use the reference materials properly

Every Spring now the direct answer every

spring the speaker here presumably heene

would f

would fill Jam pot fulls of the jelly

specs quotation to range on window sills

at home on shelves at school and wait

and watch until the fattening dots burst

into Nimble swimming that

PS is process go reproduction is process

life cycle of frogs closely watch

patiently he used to wait and watch the

eggs bursting into Nimble swimming tat

pools and now why reason as a child he

loved to observe nature he was a

naturalist and he was curious about the

life cycle of the frogs this was his

childhood fascination with nature so

these are critical comments learn these

points he wanted to gain firsthand

knowledge about the development of the

eggs into that PS he had already learned

about it at school from Miss walls see

relate simly sheim must heini also as a

child did the same thing he found beauty

same point M framing different to the

point answers directly related to the

questions you must learn to analyze what

is being asked in the question and then

frame your answers accordingly adjusting

the length of it he found beauty in this

process and had fun see he had found

beauty he had fun while being involved

in this activity Every Spring her spring

season

Co the frogs did not seem

grotesque

threatening in this phe

childhood

this

childhood

Adolescent and were once seen as

fascinating creatures favorite best of

all in fact thus this activity marked

his childhood

innocence and gradually it will bring

about a shift in his perspective filling

him with fear and desire G is the

conclusion

conclusion Every Spring normal

activitys

adolescent so this is the answer a

simple answer just go through it again

roughly one

page we'll now move on to question

question number five let's read the

question it's there on the screen

describe briefly the imagery imagery

Focus used to describe the life cycle of

a frog from specs to becoming Tes and

finally the

frogs a descriptive answer in Death of a

naturalist Shima ini has used vivid

imagery to describe see imagery first

statement

imagy word to relate it to the

question and in this way the examiner is

going to be impressed that you have

understood the question and you are

writing according to the question so

these are some tricks that you must

Master the art of writing such

subjective answers so that you can score

well in Death of a naturalist Shima has

used vivid imagery to describe the life

cycle of a frog from specs to becoming

Nimble swimming tat poles and finally

the frogs

so and I have framed the introductory

statement and the examiner trust me will

love it you are writing according to the

question

answer he or she will get this

impression so this is an art Master this

art this development marks a shift in

the poet's perspective from childhood

fascination with nature enchantment to

loss of Innocence fear disgust and

disillusionment finished critical

comment

introduction use

describe briefly the imagery so

imagery there has been a shift in the

poet's

perspective the natural phenomenon

now the life cycle the natural

phenomenon natural

phenomenon life cycle of frogs in the

natural phenomenon of the life cycle of

frogs begins step one step

two frog life cycle

explain step by step so beginning with

the daddy frog croaking and the mommy

frog laying hundreds of little eggs in

the flags Dam this is the Frog spawn

growing like clotted water in the shade

of the bangs so this is a poem dear

girls and boys refer to the text and

then write the life cycle see how I have

framed the answer textual

reference is natural

phenomenon

explain this answer is a perfect compact

answer texal quotations

use answer frame come on the jelly specs

are protected from the punishing Sun

here

shade protected and the warm thick

slobber changes to fattening dots which

gradually burst into Nimble swimming tat

pools this is written with close

reference to the text Simple Man Biology

book write from the poem and what is

there in the poem I have just explained

it briefly later these stat Pooles

develop into frogs heavy uh heene uses

visual imagery so this is a critical

comment on the imagery use of imagery

visual imagery to describe this process

of how the fertilized frog eggs change

into adult frogs a compact answer learn

from here no problem at all after this

the

conclusion introduction critical

comments

conclusion critical commments

use thus images like jam pot fulls of

jelly specs arranged in rows on window

seals or on shelves at school the eggs

in the flags Dam and the angry adult

frogs present a graphic representation

of a natural phenomenon like this so

this is a graphic

representation we can simply visualize

it in front of our eyes

Imagine by the poet Shima heini so a

simple question but a complex answer an

interesting this is an interesting way

of writing such answers

now question number six again five marks

question number six what does Miss wals

tell the speaker about the

frogs in Death of a nationalist the

speaker here presumably she Masini

remembers how his teacher Miss walls

taught him and his classmates about the

different types of frogs and how to tell

the weather by their color she called

now briefly in detail how the daddy

frog uh called the daddy frog a bullfrog

and he croaked as a result of which the

mamy Frog laid hundreds of little eggs a

scientific

fact Miss

W

explain this was frog spawn the frogs

were yellow in the Sun and brown in the

rain so miss wals explained the re

production of frogs in simple critical

comment sh like

language in the first stanza now what is

the next part of the question very

quickly how does he interpret her lesson

in the second stanza of the

poem first stanza

Focus now we'll have to move on to the

second stanza and we will have to show

the

difference in the attitude of the

speaker in the first stanza the poet

found beauty in the Frog spawn and was

curious to observe the eggs wait and

watch until the fattening

dots he was curious to observe the eggs

used just add this used to wait and

watch until the fattening dots burst

into Nimble swimming tat Pooles here he

interpreted Miss wal's lesson from a

child's

perspective

perspective child's

perspective second stanza perspective

however in the second stanza he

interpreted it from the standpoint of an

adolescent so this is a change child's

perspective adol 's perspective so in

this way write your answer he was

overwhelmed by The Sight and Sound of

the frogs in the flags Dam he no longer

found them beautiful another comparison

no longer found them

beautiful instead they were gathered

there in great numbers the gross belli

best of all

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say best of all frog spawn say gross

bellied Frogs Sat On on the sords with

their loose necks push like sails again

textual reference

compulsory thus his perspective shifted

from Fascination and enchantment to fear

disgust and

disillusionment critical comment must be

mentioned he had collected jamt fulls of

frog spawn after learning about them

from Miss walls

Miss first

knowled he used to collect Jam pot fulls

of frog spawn but then he realized that

if he were to dip his hand into the

water the Frog spawn would cling to it

so miss wal's lesson about

frogs as a family like human beings made

him believe very important that the

frogs would come to protect their

offsprings and take revenge on him

therefore he was filled with fear you

will have to mention this in your answer

second

Stan next on him for separating the

children from

them frog spawn

collect actually he was perhaps

separating the children the tpes from

their

parents experience

ofil fear he was scared that the frogs

might come to take revenge on him hence

he feels guilty and feels a sense of

impending punishment for his ACT

therefore this shift in Attitude

adolescent may he has undergone an

internal

shift and this internal shift has made

him realize that there is duality in

nature beautiful be nature or harsh be

nature or since

un frog spawn

after this today's last question it's

question number seven video number one

last question and then we'll move on to

video number

two describe briefly the change in

Attitude a very important question

long important here so prepare this very

well change in

attitude when he visits the flags Dam on

one hot day one hot day but second

stanza focus on the second

stanza in Death of a naturalist the

speaker here presumably shim Masini

under goes a shift again introductory

statement

from childhood fascination with nature

to fear disgust and disenchantment

critical comment directly right at the

beginning change in

attitude is

answer the poem takes a turn when the

poet describes how the frogs become

angry and invade the flags Dam on a hot

day the poet observes the frogs in the

flags Dam and describes how they are are

gathered there in great

numbers are louder and more aggressive

right down the dam gross belled frog sat

sit on the uh sods their loose necks

pulsed like sails some of them slop and

plop and some sit Bo like mud grenades

simple explanation yes sub details book

May so the poet no longer critical

comment up attitude seems to look at the

dam with the eyes of a naturalist very

important second stanza me death of a

naturalist not with the eyes of a

naturalist first answer me eyes of a

naturalist he can no longer stand the

nauseating smell of the place and mess

of the frogs in the flags Dam initially

so a contrast is contrast mention

clearly initially he finds Beauty in the

natural world despite the unpleasantness

of the surrounding the dragonflies and

spotted butterflies strangely appealed

to him but later up the very same

setting is

repulsive a direct contrast Beauty and

now

repulsive his words I sickened turned

and ran show the poet's change in

Attitude a quotation he is overwhelmed

by The Sight and Sound of the frogs a

bus

Gres ugly thus there is an internal

shift critical comment in the conclusion

in the speaker he has dipped his hand

into the Frog spawn many times

before without fear very important

without fear P but now he is scared for

the great slime Kings best of all frog

spawn great slime kings are gathered

there for vengeance on him meanwhile

sorry metaphorically the shift is the

now the critical comment just have a

look metaphorically the shift and just

turn the page very quickly the shift is

the death of the naturalist critical

comment within him due to his journey

from being an innocent child to an

adolescent who realizes that there is

duality in nature with adolesence comes

the knowledge comes the realization that

there is duality in nature duality in

nature the natural world can be both

beautiful and harsh at the same time

this is again a short answer question a

compact five marks answer

sharain and now question number 89 10 11

12 in video number two