How is Seamus Heaneys Irish Rural Heritage Reflected In his Poetry. Es

How is Seamus Heaneys Irish Rural Heritage Reflected In his Poetry.Seamus Heaney was born and grew up in the Irish countryside on hisfathers farm. His father was still using the traditional farmingmethods, which had been handed down for generations, even thoughtechnology had developed greatly in the early twentieth century.Heaney learns a lot from his father about farming and how generationsof his family have done it. Heaney takes a great interest in it and headmires his fathers skill in working the horses. These memories giveHeaney a great deal to write about. The poems that I am going to studyare Digging, Follower, At a spud Digging and Death of aNaturalist. Heaneys memories and thoughts from childhood areconveyed in these poems.Heaney uses his childhood memories to form the basis of the poems thatI am studying. He also refers to the men before him and how they have every(prenominal) dug. In Digging we see how Heaney is using poetic shaft to digthrough the past, and his memories of seeing his father out of thewindow, digging.My father, digging. I look down.Here we see how as Heaney is sitting down to write by his window he isreminded of how he would look out the window and see his fatherdigging the potatoes which had to be dispassionate by the children. Hedescribes the children collecting the potatoes.Loving their cool hardness in our hands.Heaney is remembering the feeling of the potatoes from when he pickedthem up for his father. By using the image of digging he can explainhow, by looking through his past, he is able to unearth his roots andto discover who he really is. Heaney uses words which spue thesounds. This is because he is reliving memories.... ...ng on his coarsebackground and how he was brought up in the Irish countryside and on afarm. Digging and Follower do show how his background was ruralbut they are not using that as there main focus point. Death of aNaturalist is about the end of his love for nature and the end of him be a naturalist. Heaney uses lots of nature-related words such asFlax-dam.Sods.The use of these words show how he was brought up in a ruralbackground. This poem is scripted in quiet a childish way. We can tellthis from the language he uses, as the words are descriptive butchildish.Bubbles gargled delicately.The word gargled is a childish word but it is very effective in thispoem and really makes the reader hear the sound and see the bubblesgargling. The language in lines 16-19 defend the childish way theteacher spoke to the class.