Seamus Heaney’s Storm on the Island and Walt Whitman’s Patrolling

Writer Seamus Heaney was born in County Derry, Northern Ireland, 1939. The beginnings of the Second World War therefore aligned with his upbringing and he was witness to conflict from a young age. In addition, Northern Ireland was a divided country which saw disunity within between protestants and catholics but also unionists and loyalists, with unionists calling for independence against British rule. Requiem for the Croppies is a poem published in Death of a Naturalist (1966) which primarily deals with the 1798 Irish Rebellion, an uprising against Britain. Heaney conveys the oppressive nature of British rule, the mistreatment imposed by such and positions the reader to empathise with the rebels. He does this through the use of a sonnet

The Sea-Drift is one of the few poems that recount Walt Whitman’s childhood. Whitman takes us through journey to imagine his childhood in way that is straightforward. This poem gives me the vibe of song and musical because use of the language. This poem Sea- Drift sounds like song lyric maybe, because the bird crying to the ocean and which creates a chirping sound, nature sounds. I think this is iconic because it illustrates the imagination of a child observing nature as it makes him curious to figure out microscopic things in nature, although birds are visible but to investigate the nest of the birds and count its contains are bit unbelievable.

Walt Whitman could be seen as a narcissist because of his confidence in knowing the “ways” of the world. He is confident in his theory that the physical self and the emotional self, or the soul, are equals in all aspects. But I’m unsure if this is such a bad thing, as narcissism has negative connotations. On the other hand, the object of a visionary poet is not to sway people a certain way or impress them but to be able to reveal a moment or feeling in time and share their findings, which Walt does. Through his work he isn’t saying look at me and all I know. He is sharing his self-discovery and soul searching with the reader to show how magical it can be. He shares his uncertainties, what it’s like to love and what it’s like to be at peace

The Civil War was led by many important people such as Robert E. Lee. He was a Confederate general he led the South to victories and defeats. He was offered a position as a Union general but he declined staying with his homestate of Virginia. He was born January 19 1807 he died October 12 1870 he was 63 years old when he died. He died because of pneumonia.

The New England Renaissance was a period of expression, imagination, and change, especially in literature. It sprang from the Romantic Movement, which was characterized as a period that displayed a variety of styles and self expression. As new ideas came about, authors were inspired by their own feelings, as well as the setting that surrounded them. Walt Whitman was a poet who often times wrote about nature, individuals, and all of humanity. Walt Whitman is a romanticist poet.

What happens when an author’s writing does not encompass the same themes and ideas throughout their written portfolio? Instead of being a predictable author who a reader chooses to read to enjoy a type of story that they have come to expect from that particular author, a writer who chooses include a variety of topics and ideas keeps the reader from knowing what to expect. In Walt Whitman’s collection of poems, in the book, Leaves of Grass, Whitman portrays himself as an author, or in his case poet, who is not afraid to remain outside of the typical literary bounds, in order to write a variety of poems on numerous topics, like politics, individualism, identity, and growth. By choosing to not limit his writing to a particular theme, Whitman is

Walt Whitman, born May 31. 1819 in West Hills, New York. Walt was the second child out of eight surviving children of his parents Walter and Louisa Whitman. Walt and his siblings grew up in a family of modest means.

California served as a place for fresh starts and new beginnings for many people. The city bloomed with operations that existed to be explored and an abundance of activities to blow money on. California brought hope to those who wanted to start over and strive for living a lavish lifestyle.

In 1819, Walt Whitman was born in a two-story, cedar-shingled house that his father had built about thirty miles east of New York City. Whitman was raised by radical democrats; his father was born on the same day of the Storming of the Bastille in France. His mother was of Dutch ancestry and he claimed that her free spirited perspective of life influenced his personal creative impulses (Lewis). Her belief of combining the “practical and the materialistic” with the “transcendental and cloudy” was likely the source of Whitman’s contradictory instincts (Lewis).

Due to his stroke he retired in Cambridge, New Jersey where he published the 7th edition of Leaves of Grass, which was soon banned in Boston on the grounds that it was “obscene literature.” D.H. Lawrence called Walt Whitman the “greatest modern poet,” and “the greatest of Americans.”

that it is an ultimately impossible goal because of the natural tendency of humans to be greedy.

This essay will analyse the challenges Seamus Heaney faced during the process of translation and writing, including his own conscious effort to make the play suitable for a modern audience. It will demonstrate how Heaney’s use of language and poetry aided in presenting modern ideas through the timbre of Irish/English diction and idiom in an attempt to make the play more ‘speakable’. Identifying features of Greek theatrical conventions and how Heaney used these to shape his play. Heaney also presents social and political issues through The Burial at Thebes in a way that resonates with a contemporary audience.

In his poem, “Song of Myself,” Walt Whitman disregards the traditional, narrow minded, and systematic structure of poetry in exchange for a liberated and unrestricted point of view that represents a utopian democracy. Whitman’s objective of diversifying ideas on life and extinguishing the boundaries between contrasting individuals regardless of social status, age, or location formulate a style of writing that is dedicated to uplifting all of nature’s organisms. Whitman’s poem questions the boundaries of what know to be realism by eradicating the borders we have between humans and God, the self and others, life and death, and harmonizing humans, animals, and individuals from all walks of life. These are things we tend to isolate and disconnect.

Walt Whitman is known as Americas greatest poet; however, this took some time. Whitman is considered the father of free verse poetry (Reynolds). The free verse was not accepted among the people very well, the people had no idea how to accept it for what it was. Whitman’s greatest work is a collection of poems and stories called “Leaves of Grass”, which Whitman published his first copy in 1855. Whitman’s collection of “Leaves of Grass” is Walt’s songs about himself, America, the American people, religion, intimacy, and death. Whitman described “Leaves of Grass” as an autobiography, saying it is “an attempt from first to last, to put a Person, a human being (myself, in the latter

As many may know “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” is one of Walt Whitman's poems within the well known collection of “Leaves of Grass”. Throughout this poem Whitman imagines the travelers of the ferries and what they see, he feels as if they will see the same images as he does when looking out amongst the water. Especially in the “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” poem whitman speaks to the audience as if he is talking to them directly, though he has done this in others works within Leaves of Grass, the question with this is why does Whitman talk to the audience like he does? Is there a specific reason? What does it make the readers feel when they are reading his poems? Does it change their understanding and views? Whitman's intentions when talking directly