Question

In another poem in a collection titled for this poem, the narrator says “I rhyme to see myself, to set the darkness echoing” and describes how “as a child they could not keep me from wells.” This poem is set at a time when “bubbles gargled delicately” and “bluebottles wove a strong (15[1])gauze of sound around the smell.” This poem’s narrator recalls (15[1])how the teacher Miss Walls told children how “you could tell the weather by” certain animals, which are described as “poised like mud grenades.” A “great (*) bass chorus” in this poem arises from the “great slime kings.” The narrator of this poem recalls growing up in Ireland and collecting “jampotsful” of “hundreds of little eggs” called “frogspawn.” For 10 points, “Personal Helicon,” “Blackberry Picking” and “Digging” appear in a collection titled for what poem by Seamus Heaney? ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Death of a Naturalist
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