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How do Muldoon and Heaney differ in their attitudes towards violence?
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How do Muldoon and Heaney differ in their attitudes towards violence? Ireland is a naturally violent country because of the situation there at the moment. As Seamus Heaney said, 'Poetry is a world apart from violence'. Paul Muldoon and Seamus Heaney are two Northern Irish poets. Their poems bring across many different points about the difficult times the Irish have and also what actually happens in Ireland at these times. They have a great variety of showing this. We can see this from the poems that Heaney wrote, 'Trout' and 'Death of a Naturalist', and that Muldoon wrote, 'Anseo', 'Ireland' and 'Bran'. While understanding Ireland and studying these poems we have 'come to realise that it is a deadly place that contains the threat of violence in a seemingly innocent landscape.' This is backed up by the poem 'Ireland'. 'Ireland' is a poem which starts with a scene which initially seems...
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