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I shall be writing about three of Seamus Heaney's poems to show "the lyrical beauty and ethical depth that exalt everyday miracles and the living past.
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... I shall be writing about three of Seamus Heaney's poems to show "the lyrical beauty and ethical depth that exalt everyday miracles and the living past In the poem 'Digging', Heaney is able to bring to life 'the living past' where in watching his father digging flowerbeds he is able to recall childhood scenes when his father dug up new potatoes, which had to be collected by the children. It also leads him further back into his past to remember his grandfather digging peat to be burned as fuel on the fire. Heaney uses the image of digging to explain how, by looking through his past, he can unearth his roots to discover who he is: 'Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests, I'll dig with it.' Also in this poem he includes themes of childhood memories, the past and present and rural life. Seamus Heaney was born in 1939, and brought
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