Tony Attwood
Curtis Harrell
ENGL 1023
9:30-10:45 T,TH
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Mid-Term Break Response Essay
In the poem Mid-Term Break by Seamus Heaney, he talks about an experience of a young man coming home from college because his younger brother has passed away in a car accident . This poem reminds me of when I had to go home my first year of college because my best friend from childhood passed away from an unexpected accident.
In the first paragraph when the author says "counting bells knelling classes to a close. At two o'clock our neighbors drove me home." (Seamus Heaney pg. 288) The first sentence here makes me think about how after my dad called me that morning telling me the news how I was so stunned that everything around me felt numb and if time and everything and everyone around me were dragging. His wording in these sentences may not be easy to relate......
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