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Seamus Heaney Two Poems

Poems From Different Cultures -A Comparison of Two Seamus Heaney's Poems

At this moment in time I am studying two poems by Seamus Heaney. Seamus Heaney was born in 1939 in County Derry, Northern Ireland. He grew up on a farm and was one of nine children. He is well educated, having achieved a first in English at Queen's College, Belfast. He remained in Belfast and became a lecturer at St Joseph's College and later at Queen's College, and has lectured at various institutions since that time. Heaney has published several volumes of poetry including the award-winning Death of a Naturalist, Station Island, The Haw Lantern and more recently, Seeing Things.

His poetry is usually quite accessible to readers of all types and he is one of the most popular poets of the present day. The poems I am studying are "Blackberry Picking ", and " Mid-term Break".

"Blackberry-picking" gives a vivid account of playing in his father's field in his childhood and picking blackberries. But it is......


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