heaney poems Flashcards
digging🌞
remembering his father harvesting potatoes when we was younger
getting synaesthetsia vibes in the present that are reminding him
thinking about how he didn’t follow his path he’s an unassuming poet
blackberry picking🫐
bros picking blackberries in his childhood
childlike poetic voice
blackberries would eventually go off
basically mems x
mid term break🥀
brothers death
seeing his father weaker
remembers details very detailed and times and stuff
night drive🌌
driving in the night through france
driving thru each place then leaving
watching stuff close down for night
broagh🛕🦧
uses specific dialect to reflect the identity of where he lived how its personal and close to him
dindsenchas-‘lore of places’
punishment🦮
alduteress woman fished out the bog
heaney feels sensual and sympathetic towards her
he knows he wouldn’t have done anything tho he would have stood and watched
the otter🦦
his wife swimming on holiday
very sensitive adoring about her
hailstones☄️
about hailstones hitting
extended metaphor for painful memories
sexual awakening on 2nd column?
death of a naturalist🌿
frogs on his childhood field trip-childlike excitement at first
realisation and sexual awakening-disgust
follower👨🌾
following his father work as a child
role reversal as father starts following him
admiration and somberness
personal helicon⛽️
wells and tha- fascination
each paragraph he gets closer to finding himself- his reflection gets clearer&clearer
bogland🪨
the bog preserves a rime when the country was unified and free from the constraints int eh present day
looking into history
the tollund man🕴️
a bog man idk bruv
strange fruit🍇
seeing a bog woman describes what she looks like
there’s beauty despite the harshness
sonnet- love poem
strange fruit was a poem describing lynching
the skunk🦨
on holiday and a skunk keeps coming
reminds him of wife
soft and remembering says she’s ordinary
