Among Seamus Heaney’s famous poems are two pieces in one of his first poetry collections, Death of a Naturalist (1966). “Digging” examines the continuity of the Irish rural way of life, comparing the farmer’s spade used by Heaney’s father and grandfather to dig potatoes to the poet’s use of a pen to mine personal experience. “Mid-Term Break” is about the death of Heaney’s brother Christopher at age four.
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