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The Poetry Of Seamus Heaney

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Seamus Heaney is one of the most famous living poets of our age. He was born in April 1939 in Castledawson, Ireland and died on the 30th of August 2013. He grew up in his family farm house in County Derry being the eldest sibling of 9 in the family. His father, Patrick Heaney focused on a cattle-dealers way of life, whereas his mother, Margaret McCann obtained connections with the modern world. The poet believed he grasped significant tension and contrast through his parentage between speech and silence, convinced that opposites truly do attract. At the age of 12 Heaney was awarded a scholarship to St. Columb 's College, followed by years of transfers and then finally moving to the Irish Republic and from 1982 was regularly teaching in America, which basically proposed his poetry career.

The wordsmith from Ireland he was named was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, with his poetry achieving great critical acclaim and popularity. The three poems I annotated; ‘Mid-Term Break’, ‘Follower’ and ‘Twice Shy’ are examples of either tradition or events from Northern Ireland. Heaney was deeply influenced by the country lifestyle which alternatively profound expression within his poetry. Heaney was an observant man who analysed and understood the time evolving. As well as obtaining a mastery in the English Language had provided his poetry to be an inspiration to present generations.

BODY what Mid-term break is a poem written as an elegy that is filled with secrecy and emotion

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