"Mid-term Break"--Seamus Heaney What purpose does the opening stanza serve in the poem as a whole?

A. It gives the speaker's age at the time of the accident
B. It describes his college experience
C. It shows his father's grief
D. It introduces the idea of death


Answer: D

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