Seeing Things (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Seamus Heaney
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Poetry or poets, Sea or seafaring life, Jesus Christ, Athletes, Life, philosophy of, Beaches or seashores, Sports, Ireland or Irish people, Fishing or fishermen, Time, Boats or boating, Soccer, Kites
Critical Evaluation:
A collection of poems that are united by the theme of the movement between two worlds, Seeing Things is Seamus Heaney’s tenth book of poems. The first and last poems in the book are translations; the opening poem is a translation of the “Golden Bough” passage from book 6 of the Aeneid (30-19 b.c.e.) that deals with obtaining the fruit on that bough to gain entrance to the underworld. The ending poem is a translation of a section in canto 3 of Dante Alighieri’s Inferno (c. 1320). It deals with crossing over to the underworld on...
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