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I will compare the two poems of Seamus Heaney,Digging and Death of a Naturalist. First, I will talk about the similarities in the poems . The most important theme in the Heaney's poem and the most recurring is Nature . I think he uses this theme because it maybe the closest to his heart.A similarity between those two poems is they are both talking about nature. Another similarity is that they are both looking back at childhood memories, "Death of a Naturalist", the words "daddy...mammy",which refers to a child, usually children talk like this. In "Digging"the words,"my grandfather", refers that it was a childhood memory because, his grandfather would have died, when the poet is an adult.Both of the poems have metaphors, in "Death of a Naturalist", he used metaphors, to widen the imagination of the child he was and in "Digging", he used metaphors to also widen the memories he is talking about.The kind of metaphors in "Digging"