Blackberry-Picking‚ by Seamus Heaney‚ past the emotional switch from sheer joy to utter disappointment‚ past the childhood memories‚ the underlying meaning can be quite disturbing. Hidden deep within the happy-go-lucky rifts of childhood is a disturbing tale of greed and murder. Seamus Heaney‚ through clever diction‚ ghastly imagery‚ misguided metaphors and abruptly changing forms‚ ingeniously tells the tale that is understood and rarely spoken aloud. Seamus Heaney refers to Bluebeard at the end
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A Letter To Seamus Heaney Dear Mr. Heaney‚ I have recently studied your poetry for my Leaving Certificate English course and enjoyed it immensely. I admire the method by which you turn your poetry in to an exploration of more expansive topics. I am going to discuss some of your poems and the effects that they had on me as a reader. A poem I especially admire is The Tollund Man. I found your exploration of the past to interpret the future to be inspiring. I felt that the parallel drawn between
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in the streets. Especially the kids who lost their homes. The kids would probably be even more scared than their parents. When many companies closed down‚ that meant that all of the people who worked in it would lose their jobs. For example‚ in Digging In by Robert J. Hastings‚ the closing of Old West Side Mine meant that many people who worked there now don’t have a job. Each day of The Great Depression was people trying to get jobs‚ and people losing their homes. Most of the people probably lived
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In “Digging up the Roots”‚ Jane Goodall (1994) argues that people should stop destroying the world and start caring about nature. She also talks about how love and care should not be for humans only‚ but also for anything that lives around you such as nature. Goodall then sadly mentions how people are killing the living things around them including themselves without feeling guilty or responsible for it. Goodall describes her relation toward nature with passionate feelings joined with a sound of
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Seamus Heaney: Tribal Practises Heaney has referred to ancient tribal practices as ‘providing imaginative parallels to modern Irish politics’. Examine Punishment and at least two other poems in light of this statement. Throughout both ‘North’ and ‘Wintering Out’ Heaney uses his chief poetic value as a ‘tribal poet’ to explore and reveal his feelings on Irish politics. The changing face of his tribal poetry strongly reflects Heaney’s shifting attitude to the solution of the problems in Ulster
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Heaney and Montague both write about fear in childhood. Compare and contrast two poems‚ one by each poet‚ taking account of the methods which each poet uses to write about fear in childhood. ‘The Barn’ by Seamus Heaney and ‘Like Dolmens Round my Childhood‚ the Old People’ by John Montague are two poems that explore the theme of fear in childhood. The fears of each poet are very different in that Heaney’s fear of the barn is triggered by his vivid imagination whereas Montague’s fear of becoming
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The Turnip-snedder The poem “The Turnip-Snedder” by Seamus Heaney is about an archaic machine that was used in traditional farming‚ to cut the heads off turnips. The turnip-snedder is personified and portrayed in multiple ways. It is personified in a monstrous way but also in a very god like and powerful manner. The turnip snedder is also used to reflect the idea how some people refuse change even though it is inevitable. The poet’s attitude is nostalgic with a sinister undertone of violence and
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“Punishment” “Punishment‚” a poem written by Irish author Seamus Heaney‚ speaks of the discovery of the body of a young bog girl‚ who as realized later in the poem‚ was punished for being an “adulteress.” (23) On closer inspection and as the poem shifts from past to present the faith of the bog girl is compared with the faith of another woman in more recent violent times‚ namely The Troubles in Northern Ireland. In this poem Heaney thus comments‚ through the use of literary devices such as enjambment
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SEAMUS HEANEY AS A IRISH NATIONALIST Heaney is widely considered Ireland’s most accomplished contemporary poet and has often been called the greatest Irish poet since William Butler Yeats. In his works‚ Heaney often focuses on the proper roles and responsibilities of a poet in society‚ exploring themes of self-discovery and spiritual growth as well as addressing political and cultural issues related to Irish history. His poetry is characterized by sensuous language‚ sexual metaphors‚ and nature
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the only one. Seamus Heaney’s "Scaffolding" displays romantic relations‚ by describing the building of relationships‚ the stages of a relationship‚ and love. "When they start upon a building / Are careful to test out the scaffolding" Heaney is trying to. When Heaney uses the words "careful" and "test" he is explaining the cautiousness you should take when starting a relationship. The process towards relationship building is instilled in the next two stanzas. "Make sure that the planks won’t slip
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