Copyright 2019 by Michael W. Rickard II

Editor's Note: Here's part three of a paper I wrote on Seamus Heaney's poetry, focusing on his use of intersecting both spaces and time.The Afterlife Heaney’s later work explores not only the future, but the afterlife. Foster posits “…his sense of the civic now extends to a pronounced interest in the populated afterlife” (209 ). This makes sense as Heaney faced his last years. Foster argues that the afterlife is an undeniable presence in Heaney’s work “I...
Published on July 17, 2019 00:46