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Essay 1:
\\\\\\\"The Railway Children\\\\\\\" by Seamus Heaney helped me to understand the world’s complexity by showing me that things are not always what they seem. The poem is about wonder and the innocence and imagination of children, as they see the telegraph wires spanning the distances and imagine words travel through the wires via raindrops. It is about the children feeling so small they could \\\\\\\"fit through the eye of a needle\\\\\\\"--which is a phrase that also carries a biblical reference (the verse from Matthew 19:24 being the admonition that it is harder for a rich man to get into heaven than for a camel to pass through the eye of the needle). In other words, the children may be small and innocent, but they are not far from heaven. That is the beauty of the poem and part of its overwhelming irony, since they are not likely to be perceived as being close to heaven, seeing as they are merely railroad children. But their innocence and wonder and imagination is what puts them in such close proximity to the divine. Realizing all this, I walked away from this poem with a deep appreciation of the power of words and imagery to open the mind to new realities that do not necessarily make themselves apparent on the surface of things.
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