In Seamus Heaney's poetry, there is a recurring theme in his talking about the past, and more predominantly about significant moments in time, in which he came to realizations that brought him to adulthood. In “Death of a Naturalist” Heaney describes a moment in his childhood when he learned that nature was not as beautiful as it seemed when he was just a naive child. Heaney does this on a deeper level in "Midterm Break" he describes his experience of his younger brother's funeral and the mixed and confusing feelings he encountered, learning as a result that he was no longer a child and had no choice but to be exposed to reality. Robert Frost also in a sense describes particular moments in time, in which his narrator comes to realizations. However, Frost writes more indirectly than Heaney, and all together more metaphorically. In “A Dawn Treader” he speaks symbolically about life and death during the autumn season. He does the same in “The Road Not Taken,” where the two roads are described as a metaphor for the decisions one makes in life and the inevitable regrets we face because of those decisions. In “Stopping by a Woods on a Snowy Evening” Frost speaks directly about a moment in time, however the significant meaning is that in life one needs a moment of comfort to appreciate the peace and beauty. Heaney's "Death of a Naturalist" is about a moment in Heaney's childhood, however, it is metaphorical of aging and the loss of innocence. Heaney uses the first stanza to tell the reader about his memories of the flax dykes as somehow wonderful using colloquial language "The best thing was the warm thick slime" to seem enthusiastic about that particular moment in time. The list of the three “hot and thick drool” is highly onomatopoeic, consequently...... middle of the paper...... attachment or emotion. Once again, Heaney repeats the use of a speech marker, to highlight how vividly he remembers the terrible moment "Next morning I went up into the room." In contrast to the rest of the poem, Heaney finally writes more personally, starting with the personal pronoun “I.” He describes his memory with a sweet and peaceful atmosphere “Snowdrops and candles soothed the bedside” as opposed to the harsh and angry adjectives used previously such as “tired” and “crying”. With this, Heaney is becoming more and more intimate with the time spent alone with his brother's body, and can finally find peace about the death, but still finding the inevitable sadness that comes with the loss of a loved one." A four foot box, one foot for every year,” indirectly telling the reader how young his brother was and describing how unfortunate the death was.