Analysis Heany's 'Mid-Term Break' and Johnson's 'On My First Sonne' have many things in common but there are things that are different as well. 'Mid-Term Break' (MTB) is a sad poem about the narrator's brother's death. The first paragraph has many key words that show us that the poem is not going to be a happy one. In the first line 'sick bay' gives us an idea that it will have something to with health. …showed first 75 words of 1025 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1025 total…the narrator is feeling. An example of this is when the narrator says that all the old men standing up and shaking his hands embarrass him. The narrator of OMFS expresses his thoughts by telling his dead child his thoughts and how he feels to his lost son. He is comforting himself by telling the dead boy that he has gone to a better place and that he has escape the world's evil and rage.