Copyright 2019 by Michael W. Rickard II

Editor's Note: Here's part two of a paper I wrote on Seamus Heaney's poetry, focusing on his use of intersecting both spaces and time.Mortality Human mortality is a trope found throughout Heaney’s work but particularly in collections such as District and Circle and Human Chain. The trope of the aging process is also seen in Heaney’s later work as he reevaluates past poems, looking at life through the lens of someone with perhaps more wisdom and certainly...
Published on July 09, 2019 22:39