... cooed and laughed", and this is to convey the baby's ignorance, the onomatopoeia makes it seem more immediate. It is a very emotional poem with a sombre mood, so there is unlikely to be much sound apart from the occasional cry. The baby is a slight relief in the sadness of the rest of the poem ... uses onomatopoeia most in "Churning Day" because it is a very noisy process, almost never in "Mid-Term Break" because it is a sombre poem where the atmosphere is too sad for noise, and a little bit in "An Advancement of Learning" to deepen our understanding his fear of rats. Whenever Heaney wan...

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