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Heaney has referred to the ancient tribal practices as "providing imaginative parallels to modern Irish politics" Examine punishment and two other poems in light of this statement.
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... Heaney has referred to the ancient tribal practices as "providing imaginative parallels to modern Irish politics" Examine punishment and two other poems in light of this statement. Heaney has a great love and respect for the landscape and its history and how is comparable to modern life. A popular device of his is to use the "bog people" to reflect the crisis in Ireland at the time of his writing. This brings forward many motifs such as the idea that people never change or the as humans we are at harmony with nature. In punishment Heaney skilfully compares a sacrificed women preserved in a bog since the Iron Age with the punishment to one of many anonymous young catholic Irish women dated English protestant soldiers in Ireland. The poem starts with vivid description of the sacrifice of the Danish Iron Aged women. Heaney uses emphatic language to evoke the listeners' sympathy
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