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    <title>Seamus Heaney Group at eNotes</title>
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    <description>The latest discussion, including questions and answers, from the Seamus Heaney Group at eNotes.</description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Heaney, as always relates the poet to the farmer (e.g Digging) but more...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/seamus-heaney/q-and-a/what-does-heaneys-first-kingdom-mean-91925</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Heaney, as always relates the poet to the farmer (e.g Digging) but more importantly, he sees the 'first kingdom', the colonial era of political domination through the agricultural metaphor. But, interestingly enough, in this poem, the initial function of the farmer's world seems to be reductive.
As a post-colonial Irish poet, Seamus Heaney, in this poem, talks about the farmers as the first colonizers of the mother-earth. This metaphoric...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:46:02 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Seamus Heaney's poetry, I think, is a splendid combination of Romantic...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Seamus Heaney's poetry, I think, is a splendid combination of Romantic nature-consciousness, Wordsworthian memory, Blake-like simplicity and Hughes-like insight into the natural under-taste of violence. Heaney is both a participant as well as a resistant voice in relation to what we have come to call the post-modern age. His poetry is a return to the simple and pure natural topos with a strong accent on his geopolitical space--Ireland in its...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:19:02 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[what is toner's bog?
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        <description><![CDATA[what is toner's bog?
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        <pubDate>Thu, 6 Aug 2009 04:23:45 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What does the last stanza of Heaney's 'The First Kingdom' mean?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What does the last stanza of Heaney's 'The First Kingdom' mean?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 07:27:58 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The theme of Seamus Heaney’s poem, “Mossbawn: Sunlight”, appears...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The theme of Seamus Heaney’s poem, “Mossbawn: Sunlight”, appears to be the love between mother and child, depicted in the familiar scone-baking activity.  Although there is a “sunlit absence”, there is the light and warmth of peaceful, loving, contented activity.
Besides “Mossbawn” being the name of the poet’s home, with “bawn’ meaning white, fair, pleasant, beloved, the poem emanates warmth, sweetness, and contentment...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 10:05:08 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Seamus Heaney (b.1939) is a very famous Irish poet who was awarded the...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/seamus-heaney/q-and-a/what-country-do-you-thikn-peom-takes-place-digging-85631</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Seamus Heaney (b.1939) is a very famous Irish poet who was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1995. His father owned and worked a small farm of fifty acres in Derry, Northern Ireland. This poem "Digging" is located in Ireland and is inspired by the poet's close association with the rural county Derry where much of his poetry is still grounded.
Potato was the staple crop of Ireland and references to it help to locate the poem in Ireland:"potato...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 08:28:00 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[rum151,
Seamus Heaney, in his poem "Digging," uses an extended...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/seamus-heaney/q-and-a/quote-line-where-first-flashback-begins-poem-85645</link>
        <description><![CDATA[rum151,
Seamus Heaney, in his poem "Digging," uses an extended metaphor of digging as he meditates on his father digging in his garden. The sight of his father digging reminds Seamus of his father digging potatoes twenty years earlier and of his grandfather, who could cut more peat than any farmer in the area. The speaker comments that he has no spade to dig as his father and gradfather did, but he will dig up meaning with his pen as a poet...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 22:57:53 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The first flashback occurs when Heaney is reminded of his grandfather:
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        <link>http://www.enotes.com/seamus-heaney/q-and-a/quote-line-where-first-flashback-begins-poem-85645</link>
        <description><![CDATA[The first flashback occurs when Heaney is reminded of his grandfather:

"My grandfather could cut more turf in a day
Than any other man on Toner's Bog."

The second flashback occurs when he tries to compare and contrast his present situation with that  of his father's  and grandfather's: "through living roots awaken in my head."
Both these flashbacks emphasize the importance and value of tradition but every individual must not become bogged...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 21:06:46 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[This poem "Digging" is in Heaney's first collection of poems called...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/seamus-heaney/q-and-a/explaining-how-you-used-various-techniques-85621</link>
        <description><![CDATA[This poem "Digging" is in Heaney's first collection of poems called "Death of a Naturalist" (1966).This poem is the first poem of this collection. It is a free verse poem written in first person narrative, with eight stanzas containing two couplets. The free structure of this poem allows Heaney to freely express his respect of the Irish tradition as well as his pride and dignity towards his ancestors.
The poem starts and ends with the same...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 20:11:44 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Citically comment on the flashbacks in Seamus Heaney's "Digging."]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/seamus-heaney/q-and-a/quote-line-where-first-flashback-begins-poem-85645</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Citically comment on the flashbacks in Seamus Heaney's "Digging."]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 20:10:53 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What country do you think the poem "Digging" by Seamus Heaney takes...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What country do you think the poem "Digging" by Seamus Heaney takes place in?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 19:24:02 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Attempt a critical analysis of Seamus Heaney's "Digging."]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/seamus-heaney/q-and-a/explaining-how-you-used-various-techniques-85621</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Attempt a critical analysis of Seamus Heaney's "Digging."]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 17:37:57 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Describe the theme of Seamus Heaneys poem Sunlight:]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/seamus-heaney/q-and-a/describe-theme-seamus-heaneys-poem-sunlight-85531</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Describe the theme of Seamus Heaneys poem Sunlight:]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 03:20:41 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[“Mossbawn: Sunlight” by Seamus Heaney presents an imagery of...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[“Mossbawn: Sunlight” by Seamus Heaney presents an imagery of intimacy with the woman making the scones, heating the griddle, and keeping a watchful eye on their baking progress.  Despite the “sunlit absence”, the setting is replete with warmth, light, and plenty.
Structured in five sentences and six stanzas, the poem emanates a tone of industry, art, and love.  Industry, in the sure dexterous moves of the baker and the continuous...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 16:03:47 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Describe the language of the poem Sunlight by Seamus Heaney.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Describe the language of the poem Sunlight by Seamus Heaney.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 14:39:46 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[A Very difficult question ! Years ago I read a passage written by Seamus...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[A Very difficult question ! Years ago I read a passage written by Seamus Heaney and I cant remember what the quote is. It is about N. Ireland mindset.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 09:49:13 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How has Seamus Heaney succeeded in making out a good case in favour of...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How has Seamus Heaney succeeded in making out a good case in favour of poetry in the postmodern age?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 03:56:47 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[This is a little broad for an enotes answer considering the volume of...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/seamus-heaney/q-and-a/why-does-world-that-seamus-heaney-confronts-his-51547</link>
        <description><![CDATA[This is a little broad for an enotes answer considering the volume of Heaney's work overy many years. One possible approach is to look at the poems about childhood which attempt to make sense of the world. There's nothing unique in this as all children have to make sense of the world in which they are growing up. Take a poem like 'The Early Purges' for example. The boy is witnessing death for the first time, seeing its starkness and finality...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 8 Dec 2008 04:09:23 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Why does the world that Seamus Heaney confronts in his works seem...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Why does the world that Seamus Heaney confronts in his works seem senseless and how does he try to explain this to his readers?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 4 Dec 2008 20:03:41 PST</pubDate>
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