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Explore the life and work of Seamus Heaney, the influential Irish poet praised for his lyrical beauty and ethical depth. From his humble beginnings in Northern Ireland to receiving numerous prestigious awards, delve into the essence of his poetry and legacy. Discover the soul of his writing through key poems spanning from 1966 to 1987, leading up to his final masterpiece.

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  1. Seamus heaney Walk on air against your better judgement

  2. “…keeper of language, our codes, our essence as a people.” -Prime Minister Enda Kenny April 1939 - August 2013 “The most important Irish poet since Yeats.” -Robert Lowell, poet “…works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past.” -The Nobel Foundation

  3. Born and Raised in northern ireland

  4. Spent much of his adult life in dublin, the Capital of ireland

  5. Heaney was a visiting professor at UC Berkeley in 1970, professor at Harvard from 1981 to 1997, and its Poet in Residence from 1988 to 2006. From 1989 to 1994, he was also the Professor of Poetry at Oxford. In 1996, was made a Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres. Other awards that he received include the Geoffrey Fa

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  • 1. Seamus Heaney The Irish voice of the earth Seamus Heaney

  • 2. Seamus Heaney 1. Life • Born into a Catholic family in 1939 in the county of Derry, Northern Ireland. • At school became aware of the religious and cultural division of Ulster. • Graduated in English Language and Literature in Belfast in 1961. Seamus Heaney Only Connect ... New Directions

  • 3. Seamus Heaney 1. Life • In 1970 and 1971, Heaney worked at the University of California, Berkeley. This accelerated the “politicisation” of his poetry  poetry could become “a mode of resistance”. Seamus Heaney Only Connect ... New Directions

  • 4. Seamus Heaney 2. Works 1966  Death of a Naturalist. 1969  Door into the Dark: involvement in the civil rights movement. 1972  Wintering Out: his response to the increasing complexity of the Irish question Seamus Heaney after the irruption into Northern affairs of the Provisional IRA. Only Connect ... New Directions

  • 5. Seamus Heaney 2. Works 1975  North: the result of Heaney’s meditation on his reading P.V. Glob’s The Bog People and its account of propitiatory Iron Age ritual killings in Jutland. 1980  Selected Poems, Preoccupations (a collection of Seamus Heaney prose pieces). 1984  Station Island. Only Connect ... New Directions

  • 6. Seamus Heaney 2. Works 1987  The Haw Lantern. 1991  Seeing Things: return to some of the memories of his childhood, especially in the sequence of the sonnets dedicated to his mother’s death. Seamus Heaney 1996  The Spirit Level. 2001  Electric Light. Only Connect ... New Directions

  • 7. Seamus Heaney 3. The voice of the earth • Rural County Derry is the “country of the mind”. • Emphasis on human work: ploughing and digging, butter- churning, the blackberry and potato picking. Ardmore, Ireland Only Connect ... New Directions

  • 8. Seamus Heaney 3. The voice of the earth • The interchange between man and nature enlarges the poet’s consciousness. • The poet is intimately involved with his own commun
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    • Seamus Heaney 1939.

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    1 Seamus Heaney 1939

    2 Background Born in 1939 on a farm called Mossbawn in Co. Derry
    Degree in English Language and Literature from Queen's University, Belfast. Became an English teacher. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995, reinforcing his reputation as one of Ireland's finest and best-loved poets.

    3 Social and Cultural Context
    Born into a divided worldSectarian assassinations in 1920sMurder of his cousin in the 1970sDeath of his neighbour on hunger strikeCivil rights marches of 1960sBloody Sunday shootings and Hunger strikes of 1980s

    4 One of Heaney’s major achievements is that while he has sought to face up to his responsibilities as a writer, his work is not overwhelmed by the enormity of the events to which it responds.

    5 ThemesHis writing is very much rooted in his Irishness, celebrating native, traditional skills, exploring Ireland's past and identity and trying to find language and imagery with which to speak of Northern Ireland's troubled past and ambiguous present.

    6 Many of his themes, however, are more universal and deal with
    the development of self,the nature of love and death,the creative processthe importance of the poetic imagination.

    7 Five Key Points to Remember:
    The social and political dimensions of life in Northern Ireland are part and parcel of Seamus Heaney’s inheritance and his poetry.A theme that runs through Heaney’s work is the question of response: how should the poet respond to the circumstances in which he finds himself?

    8 3. Heaney is open to the idea of learning from others and his poems borrow and refer to a wide range of writers and sources. 4. The example of Patrick Kavanagh’s poetry gave Heaney the permission to write about his own place and culture. The manner in which Kavanagh bridged the gap between the ordinary and the sacred has been taken up by Heaney in his later work.

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  • contents • Biography • First poem “Digging” analysis and summery • Second poem “Punishment” analysis and summery • Questions • References

  • Biography • Seamus Heaney(13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was renowned Irish poet and professor. • His best-known works is Death of a Naturalist(1966). • He was born in a farm in the Castledàwson region of northern Ireland. • He received a scholarship to attend the school St. Columb's College in Derry and went on to Queens University in Belfast and graduating in 1961.

  • Heaney worked as a schoolteacher for a time before becoming a college lecturer and eventually working as a freelance poet by the early '70s. In 1965. • He was also known for his prose writing and work as an editor, as well as serving as a professor . • Received the 1995 Novel prize in Literature.

  • Digging Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests ; snug as a gun Under my window, a clean rasping sound When the spade sinks into gravelly ground My father, digging. I look down In his room Simile as a weapon Scenery has changed Alliteration creates rhythm

  • Till his straining rump among the flowerbeds Bends low, comes up twenty years away Stooping in rhythm through potato drills Where he was digging. Going back to twenty years ago rump = buttocks drills = small lanes in which seeds are sown

  • The coarse boot nestled on the lug, the shaft Against the inside knee was levered firmly. He rooted out tall tops, buried the bright edge deep To scatter new potatoes that we picked Loving their cool hardness in our hands. By God, the old man could handle the spade. Just like his old man. The close-up his father's spadework over the years. “oo” sounds are assonance which reflects the rhythm of digging He is admiring and impressed dignity of labor.

  • My ground father cut more turf in a day Than any other man on Toner’s bog Once I ca