Most, if not all, of Heaney's poems in 'Wintering Out' describe Heaney's uncertainty towards religion and his home land, Northern Ireland - "The Tollund Man" and "Westering" best illustrate these uncertainties.

... Haneesa Latif Choose two poems to illustrate Heaney's feelings of uncertainty. Most, if not all, of Heaney's poems in 'Wintering Out' describe Heaney's uncertainty towards religion and his home land, Northern Ireland. "The Tollund Man" and "Westering" best illustrate these uncertainties. "The Tollund Man" is about a body found in a bog that has been preserved for hundreds and thousands of years. The body was a sacrifice made to the Pagan Goddess of fertility, otherwise known as the earth. The tannic acid in the bog preserved the body, replacing the skin with a thick, brown, leather like layer. In this particular poem, Heaney looks beyond the body being preserved by the tannic acid and questions whether the Tollund Man was more than a man. We begin to realize Heaney's uncertainty towards the Christian religion. -..his peat-brown head, the mild pods of his eye-lids, His pointed skin cap. Here, he describes the Tollund Man's appearance. He goes

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