Comparison of 2 Poems Mid Term Break by Seamus Heaney and Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day by William Shakespeare Seamus Heaney was born in 1939 in a small agricultural town in county Derry. In 1957 he went to Queen’s University in Belfast where he studied literature. He returned to Queen’s in 1965 as a lecturer. In 1972 Heaney moved to the Republic of Ireland because of the bitterness between Catholics and Protestants in the …showed first 75 words of 1519 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1519 total…s case, where he was at a boarding school, the mid – term would have been one of the few chances he got to see his family, in this instance he does see his family but his brother has passed away. Mid – term could signify a change or the fact that the incident has happened at crucial stage or mid – point of Heaney’s life. The break could be referring to the emotional heartbreak and trauma.