Seamus Heaney – ‘The Early Purges’ – Annotation / Planning Table / Questions / Booklet

Annotation prompts for Seamus Heaney’s ‘The Early Purges’. ‘The Early Purges’ concerns a child’s initial brush with the phenomena that is death, albeit in a seemingly cruel manner. The annotation prompts are a supportive tool, intended to encourage further poetry analysis and interpretation. Resources included: an editable PowerPoint presentation on Seamus Heaney’s ‘The Early Purges’; a poetry planning table; 20 poetry analysis questions; and a booklet containing the poetry questions, with space to respond.

This poetry resource complements the video annotation of Seamus Heaney’s ‘The Early Purges’, on Poetry Essay’s YouTube channel.