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This is a 4 page paper that provides an overview of the poetic works of Heaney and Hayden. The thematic similarities in presenting generational sacrifice are reviewed. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. Generational Sacrifice in the Poetic Works of Heaney and
Hayden , 10/2010 --properly! One of the purposes of poetry is to use an economy of language to express ideas that
are more complex than the concrete images and words that convey them. This is accomplished through a variety of stylistic means, and it is through the examination of these means
that readers can divine some glimpse of the intended thematic statement of a poem. What is even more interesting, however, is using analysis to reveal thematic similarities between multiple poems
that, superficially, seem to have little to do with one another. This paper will examine two poems, "Digging" by Seamus Heaney, and "Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden, with an
eye towards revealing and illuminating their thematic similarities, in spite of their superficial differences. Heaneys poem, "Digging", presents a scene wherein a boy is writing at a desk, looks
out a window to find his father toiling in a field digging potatoes, and then remembers a distant scene in which he once brought milk to his grandfather who had
been toiling away at similar work. He reflects that while he respects these men, his own digging is accomplished with his "squat pen" (Heaney, 1966). Haydens poem is more compact
and presents just a singular image: Haydens father rising before the rest of the house on a cold morning, dressing in the dark, and preparing a fire for the rest
of the family. Only after the rooms are already warm does the father call for the rest of the family to wake. The poem ends with a lament that Haydens
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