Seamus Heaney Poems Seamus Heaney

In Seamus Heaney’s poem, The Forge, an interpretation of the poem could lead one to believe that the poem is a commentary on the uncertainty of what lies ahead in the relationship between a person and religion. The mystery of what lies ahead is...

In Seamus Heaney’s poem, “Blackberry-Picking”, an interpretation of the poem could lead one to believe that the poem is elegy to the children who will grow up and be made rotten by the world over time. The message is captured in Heaney’s feelings...

The piece “My First Son”, was written by Ben Johnson and the poem “Mid-Term Break” was written by Seamus Heaney. Both poems revolve around the death of a loved one. The directed audience of both these poems, are people who have lost someone close...

Heaney's autobiographical poem 'Mid Term Break' details how a younger Heaney reacted to the death of his four-year-old brother, as well as how he dealt with suddenly being seen as an adult by his peers. Heaney takes on a numb, almost clinical tone...

In Gerard Manley Hopkins’s “Felix Randal,” the speaker has different concerns and different ways of healing from the loss of someone than Seamus Heaney’s “Seeing the Sick.” Though both poems cover the same morbid concept, Hopkins’s poem focuses...

Irish nationalist Seamus Heaney’s 1975 poem “Act of Union,” written three years after the massacre known as Bloody Sunday, explores the political unification of the colonizer, England, and the colonized, Ireland in which Ireland and England...

Western literature has long been dominated by an imposing patriarchal vision, privileging the voices of men in creating written records of their experiences, commonly centered around conventional heterosexual desire and affluent “artist”...