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Seamus Heaney's poem "Digging" and Peter Meinke's poem "Advice to My Son" both address the idea of family and how it is essential for connections between members of the family to be strong. Even with this, they both deal with the matter from different perspectives. In addition to the obvious fact that one concentrates on showing a son's feeling toward his father and grandfather while the other involves a father's feelings toward his son, the poems are also different when considering the speaker's attitude toward his family. Heaney's speaker seems to accept his fate and to consider that it would be difficult and almost impossible for him to connect with his father and grandfather. In contrast, Meinke's speaker is enthusiastic about connecting with his son and actually provides him with advice in an attempt to have him better prepared to deal with life. The fact that his father is working in the garden makes it difficult for him to concentrate and his imagination runs wild thinking about the moments when the speaker was a small boy and his father was working on potato fields. The speaker then proceeds to go even further back to the moments when his grandfather was harvesting peat.
While this seems like a general set of memories, the fact that Heaney uses a lot of powerful words to describe concepts that would otherwise seem perfectly normal makes it possible for audiences to understand that there is more to the speaker's thinking than one might be inclined to believe. The fact that he associates the pen with a gun and his father digging flowers with his father digging for potatoes…
Seamus Heaney Few writers can boast such an impressive volume of work as Seamus Heaney has produced in the last thirty years: nineteen books of poetry, nine poetry pamphlets, two books of selected poems, one-book length verse translation, three collection of essays, one play, and two anthologies of poetry. And few writers in their lifet6ime achieve the kind of popularity and reputation that Seamus Heaney has" http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0231119275/ref=sib_rdr_ex/103-2?%5Fencoding=UTF8&p=S008#reader-link Seamus Heaney is one of
And indeed life was like the churning and stinking of the butter-making process. "Brains turned crystals full of clean deal churns"; this is the poet saying that living and thinking was a process like making butter; you have to have something of substance to begin with, then you have to make sure it is "clean" and finally, it is complete. Poetic form "is both the ship and the anchor," Heaney stated
Annotated BibliographyAlexander, Stephanie. \\\"They \\\'smelt of rot\\\': Abjection and Infection in Seamus Heaney�s EarlyWork.\\\" Estudios Irlandeses, Issue 18, 2023, pp. 11-24.In this scholarly article, Stephanie Alexander examines the early pastoral poetry of Seamus Heaney through the lens of Julia Kristeva�s notion of the abject. The article focuses on several themes, such as darkness, fear, and fertility. Alexander�s main argument is that Heaney�s poetry and the landscapes he presents are complex
Digging" by Seamus Heaney and "Father and Son" by Stanley Kunitz Comparative analysis of the poems "Digging" by Seamus Heaney and "Father and Son" by Stanley Kunitz showed that though both poems had used similar themes in discussing the father and son relationships of the two authors with their respective fathers, the utilization of poetic elements such as tone and diction, symbolism, and denotation and connotation greatly differed. In discussing the
Going further with the analysis, it could be stated that the Irish get answers to their dilemmas from their own cultural identity (which is nourished by the best values). The previous idea of Ireland being eternal is supported by the view according to which its history stretches to immemorial times: "Every layer they strip/Seems camped on before./The bogholes might be Atlantic seepage./The wet centre is bottomless" (Heaney, 25-28). The fact
Because society compromises the value of the woman, it is allowed the life of domesticity and life. The speaker however remains forever beyond this because she chooses self-realization instead. In Heaney's "Punishment," feminism can be seen from the male viewpoint, as it were. The corpse of a bog girl, an adulteress, educates the narrator regarding issues of gender and politics. The narrator, far from the conventional male reaction of disgust,