Seamus Heaney

The title ‘Field of vision’ has a triple meaning; the field which is in view, her field of vision, and the narrator’s field of vision. The title is an apt indication of the poem itself. Heaney presents the reader with images that at face value mean one thing, but when you look closer the meaning…

This underlying theme is used to convey to readers the conflict of the young lovers that gives rise to anxiety as they are caught between protecting oneself from heartache, and risking confession of a true love. Heaney communicates his message through the use of poetic devices as his speaker contemplates whether to go through with…

‘The Forge’ is a sonnet with a clear division into an octave ( the first eight lines ) and a six ( the concluding six lines ) . While the octave. apart from its initial mention to the storyteller. focuses entirely on the inanimate objects and happenings inside and outside the forge. the six describes…

Mid-term Break is a poem by the Irish poet Seamus Heaney. In this poem I will explain how the poem is very effective at conveying the complex emotions of how Seamus Heaney feels when he loses his younger brother in a road accident. I was surprised that in the poem he doesn’t show any sadness,…

Mid-term Break Seamus Heaney’s ‘Mid-Term Break’ is a shocking and heart-rending poem about a schoolboy going through the after effects of the death of his four years old younger brother. It shows the reader the emotions and events that the boy has to go through, and explains what the words ‘Mid-term Break’ really mean to…

Fellow classmates it is a pleasure to have all you gathered here in front of me. Today I would like to talk about something, which I feel strongly about.You may be unaware of this but the issue, which I wish to talk about, costs Northern Ireland’s workers millions of pounds each year and is an…

“Mid-Term Break,” a free-verse poem by Seamus Heaney, delves into the speaker’s encounter with his younger brother’s death upon returning from boarding school. Within the poem, various themes such as time, age, family, pain, love, and death are explored. Death holds a crucial place in every individual’s existence despite being an unsettling subject matter. Our…

Compare the ways in which Heaney and Hughes describe their storms. “Storm on the Island” starts in a very dramatic way by setting the scene of the poem on a lonely, deserted island. Firstly, Seamus Heaney describes the surroundings in a way, to make the readers assume that the storm is set on a very…

Cervo, Nathan A. “Yeats’ ‘Among School Children.” Explicator Fall (2001): p 30-31. This piece discusses arguably one of the more interesting works of Yeats entitled “among School Children”.  The discussion revolves around how W.B Yeats deconstructs the value of the things that are taught by kindly nuns to the children under their supposed care.  It…

Seamus Heaney, as part of his ‘Bog Poems’ collection, wrote the poem, ‘Bog Queen’. In this poem, Heaney brings together the main themes of his bog poems, including religion and sacrifice, pain and suffering, conflict within the Irish society and the links between the past the present. Heaney believes that Mother Ireland is Mother Earth,…