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In one poem, this author described a figure who “seems to weep / the black river of himself.” In the “old man-killing parishes,” this author sees a man with a “peat-brown head” and feels “lost, / unhappy and at home.” That poem is one of this author’s “bog body” poems. (15[1])In another poem, this author’s dead brother wears (15[1])a “poppy bruise” while lying in a “four-foot (15[1])box, (15[1])a foot for every year.” The narrator of a poem by this author discovers (*) “great slime kings” “gathered there for vengeance” (-5[1])when returning to a “flax-dam” to collect frogspawn. This author described bringing his grandfather milk “corked sloppily with paper” in a poem that analogizes the title action to a “squat pen” “between my finger and my thumb.” For 10 points, name this author of “Death of a Naturalist” (10[1])and “Digging.” ■END■ (10[1]0[3])

ANSWER: Seamus Heaney
<CH, British Literature>
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