Death of a Naturalist Transformation Quotes

The introduction of this line, "Then one hot day," lets us know, as readers, that something is about to change. And in this case, change is about to go down with the speaker.

The speaker has never heard the croaking before, and after reading the poem and seeing what the experience did to him, we can tell that this new experience changed him in a big way. Can someone say traumatizing ?

No longer does the speaker think about the frogs excitedly. Now he's sickened by them. How quickly the opinions (and fashion) of young people can change!