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 tranquillize development 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 slightly farming and how generationsof his family have done it. Heaney takes a great interest in it and headmires his fathers skill in workings the horses. These memories giveHeaney a great deal to write about. The numberss that I am going to studyare Digging, Follower, At a Potato Digging and Death of aNaturalist. Heaneys memories and thoughts from childishness 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 haveall dug. In Digging we see how Heaney is using poetic digging to digthrough the past, a nd his memories of eyesight 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 collected by the children. Hedescribes the children collecting the potatoes.Loving their cool roughness 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 facial expression through his past, he is able to unearth his roots andto discover who he really is. Heaney uses words which reproduce thesounds. This is because he is reliving memories.... ...ng on his country-stylebackground 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 himbeing 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 written 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 represent the childish way theteacher spoke to the class.