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1
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Poet?

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Seamus Heaney

2
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About?

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The narrator remembers how they used to collect frogspawn from a flax dam. They were enthusiastic about the frogspawn however as they grew up they found frogs disgusting.

3
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Form and Structure:

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First person narrator
Blank verse
Two stanzas

4
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Q - Colloquial language

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‘Miss Walls would tell us how the daddy frog’

5
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Q - Innocence and repetition of conjunction ‘and’

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‘And how he croaked and how the mammy frog laid hundreds of little eggs’

6
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Q - First stanza, enjoying the frogspawn

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‘but best of all was the warm thick slobber of frogspawn’

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Q - Second stanza, disgusted by the frogspawn, last line, nightmarish image

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‘the spawn would clutch it’

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Q - Second Stanza, the frogspawn is frogs and they are authoritative over the narrator.

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‘The great slime kings’