Discussing two or three Poems in Detail, Explain how you think Heaney :: English Literature

Discussing two or three Poems in Detail, Explain how you think HeaneyDevelops our Understanding of the Nature of worldly concern and Existencethrough PoetryIn this essay I will discuss the poems Digging, Wheels within Wheelsand Toome. I will explain how Heaney develops our understanding ofhumanity and domain through the poems mentioned above. Heaneymainly uses poetic techniques to express and expand our understandingof the nature of existence and humanity. The ideas in Digging concernrelationships to ancestors, and to work. Heaney describes hisrelationship to his fetch and grandfather purely in terms of theirwork on the land. He takes the idea of digging, the commonest form ofwork in any rural community, and uses it as a symbol for productive, fictive work in general, and for writing in particular. The idea inWheels within Wheels are about life in the metaphor of a wheel. Toomeis about the slow up type land and the past.I think Heaney develops our understanding of the nature of humanity bybringing the theme of relationships on the farm into this poem.Heaneys father has great skill when it comes to digging, leveredfirmly. This shows the reader that country life is not all easy, andeven to work on a farm, you need to have quite a lot of skill. Theimages produced by these words are very effective because they givethe reader a picture of a man who is not only digging, but doing itwith immense skill, which is not something which we usually associatewith a job like that. This helps us understand why Heaney has chosento talk about his past and digging. The continuation of farming fromHeaneys grandfather, to Heaneys father, the gray-headed man could handle aspade. Just like his old man shows the reader that country life isvery family orientated, and professions are often carried down fromfather to son. The images of Heaneys father being taught to dig byhis father are very powerful and effective, because they show thereader the strong bonds between humanity on a farm, and that humannature has not changed. The last line, The squat pen rests. Ill digwith it. shows that in the country, it is often expected that peoplelike Heaney will follow in their fathers footsteps, but Heaney isseen here to choose to be a writer. The image of Heaney digging outhis memories with pen are very effective because the reader can run into the likeness between poetry and farming. Heaney usesalliterative language to go back to the roots of time and human