Help with English homework

Question

So I am writing an answer to the question about a studied poem I did. The one Im doing is Mid-Term Break by Seamus Heaney. The question is " What insights into the issue (death) did you get from studying this poem? Explain your answer with reference to the poem." Im stuck............ What does insight mean? And what should I write about? Please help me!!!! Oh and this is the poem.I really like it!

                      **I sat all morning in the college sick bay
                      Counting bells knelling classes to a close.
                       At two o'clock our neighbors drove me home.
                         In the porch I met my father crying--
                           He had always taken funerals in his stride--
                        And Big Jim Evans saying it was a hard blow.
                     The baby cooed and laughed and rocked the pram
                        When I came in, and I was embarrassed
                     By old men standing up to shake my hand
                    And tell me they were "sorry for my trouble,"
                    Whispers informed strangers I was the eldest,
                   Away at school, as my mother held my hand
                  In hers and coughed out angry tearless sighs.
                   At ten o'clock the ambulance arrived
                     With the corpse, stanched and bandaged by the nurses.
                    Next morning I went up into the room. Snowdrops
                  And candles soothed the bedside; I saw him
                  For the first time in six weeks. Paler now,
                  Wearing a poppy bruise on his left temple,
                  He lay in the four foot box as in his cot.
                 No gaudy scars, the bumper knocked him clear.
                A four foot box, a foot for every year.

Answer 1

Basically they are asking you what you learnt about death from the poem. For example you could talk about the mothers anger.

Good luck, I'm glad it isn't my homework.

Answer 2

This may help a little.

insight (into sth)

idea, percepción (de algo)

She was given an unpleasant insight into what life would be like as his wife.

Tuvo una visión no muy agradable de lo que sería su vida casada con él.

Answer 3

Insight

Comprehension of something, to understand something well

perspicacia

llegar a comprender bien algo

Esto me permitió comprender mejor cómo funcionaba el sistema - This gave me an insight into the workings of the system