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A fifteen page paper looking at this Irish poet's views of the thin veil between life and death, as depicted in his works. The paper asserts that Heaney views the dead and the living, the past and the present, as occupying the same space. Bibliography lists fifteen sources, including seven poems of Heaney's.
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literal ghosts, but by the force of its own past. Irish poet Seamus Heaney reflects this haunting in his work, which frequently deals not only with death, but with the
incursion of what should be dead and gone into the world of everyday life. In his poetry the world of the past and the world of the present collide in
a profoundly Irish way, and through an analysis of these collisions we can see how he reveals his feelings, fears, and hopes for his own salvation and that of his
native land. In doing so, it may be best to start with a relatively accessible poem, and work through that to ones more complex. Heaneys poem "Mid-Term Break" tells of
a boy who has presumably been pulled out of class to be told of the accident that claimed his brothers life. The first stanza tells us that he has spent
all morning in the sick bay, waiting to be picked up. The fact that something ominous has happened is signaled by the fact that Heaney uses the word "knell" to
describe the bells signaling the end of class. Normally, one speaks of school bells "ringing"; "knelling" is something reserved for the sound of the church bells mourning the dead. Lines
four and five provide additional support for this hypothesis; the boys father, who usually "takes funerals in stride" is "crying". We now know what the trouble is; we just dont
know who. This creates a sense of confusion in our own minds, which reflects the confusion of a household suddenly pitched into shock and grief. The house is full of
people, some of whom the boy knows -- "Big Jim Evans", "my mother" -- as well as others he doesnt: "strangers," "old men". People try to shake his hand; they
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