Response to Death of a Naturalist

What I did  when I was a child that I wouldn't do now:

• Play in  mud
• Splash in puddles
• Climb the trees
• Pretended I was a princess
• I used to love playing with My Little Pony's

As you grow up you begin to get into trouble for doing certain things so you learn to not do them. For example you start to get in trouble for splashing in muddles because your clothes become dirty and your parents tell you off.
I stopped pretending to be a princess because I grew up and learnt that I couldn't become a princess and that fairytales weren't the same as real life. (This ruined my childhood).

I think the poem is about nature becaue it mentions different amimals and plants in the poem. The opening lines evoke nature beautifully. This is because Heaney uses images such as 'bubbles gargled delicately', 'wove a strong gauze of sound,' and 'dragon-flies, spotted butterflies'.