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Poet

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Seamus Heaney

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-Seamus Heaney lived from 1939-2013.
-He grew up on his father’s farm in Northern Ireland and so the poem is thought to be autobiographical.
-The poem was published in 1966, within a collection on themes of childhood, identity and rural life.
-Many of his poems praised the concept of hard work and a rural lifestyle.

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