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| Titre : | Death - A Source in Seamus Heaney's Early Autobiographical Poetry (2014) |
| Auteurs : | Jessica STEPHENS, Auteur |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Etudes irlandaises (Vol 39 n 1 2014) |
| Article en page(s) : | p. 155-168 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
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| Résumé : | Seamus Heaney's first poetry books teem with evocations of life on a farm. In the wake of Wordsworth's Prelude, the Irish poet traces turning points in his childhood highly charged moments when he observed the cycle of life at work in the natural world around him and when he experienced and learned to master deep fears. How can the dawning sens of mortality perceptible in these early poems be related to his apprenticeship, to his access to the society of men but also to his poetic gift? The perception of death portrayed in the early poems is later revisited in "Clearances", the series of sonnets he devotes to his mother where the otherworldly dimension of the world is associated with a field of force |
| Pays de publication : | France |
| Lieu de publication : | Rennes |
| Mention de responsabilité : | Jessica Stephens |
| Fonds : | Médiathèque |
