Category: Seamus Heaney

In the poem Mid-Term Break belonging to the collection Death of a Naturalist (1966), the poet Seamus Heaney thoroughly explores the theme of children sometimes being forced to grow up. The memory poem presents the tragedy which forced Seamus Heaney to come of age, laying out in snapshot-like form the instances that marked the influential…

This paper deals with Seamus Heaney’s attitude to politics in his poetry, focusing on ‘North’ collection (1975). It aims at showing how Heaney developed from a nature poet to a political poet and how the surrounding events affected his poetry and his attitude. Besides, he is not really considered as a political poet but he…

Seamus Heaneys poem The Thimble discusses the plethora of uses that a thimble has provided to many different societies and cultures over its time of existence. The thimble is a small closed-end cap worn over people fingertips to protect them from needles while sewing. But The Thimble argues that every object is an absent center…

There are other mentions of nature, for instance: The sky (v3), sea and hill (v6), that rock (v10), The leggy birds (v11), and Water and ground (v16). Nature is important in this poem, breakers shredded into rags (v10), breakers are heavy waves which become white foam. (Wikipedia) This is really inspiring for the narrator. A…

Two world wars, an intervening economic depression of great severity, and the austerity of life in Britain following the Second World War help to explain the quality and direction of English literature in the 20th century. The traditional values of Western civilization, which the Victorians had only begun to question, came to be questioned seriously…

Introduction Twentieth-Century English Poetry contains the poetry of over 280 poets from 1900 to the present day, including W.B. Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Wilfred Owen, Robert Graves, A.E. Housman, John Betjeman, Fleur Adcock, Tony Harrison, Benjamin Zephaniah, and Isaac Rosenberg, D.H. Lawrence and Carol Ann Duffy and many others. It also incorporates works by poets such…