One of Heaney's greatest skills is that of portraiture: the vivid realistic drawing of characters, sometimes nostalgic, often unflattering, Discuss this statement in the light of the poems you have read.

... One of Heaney's greatest skills is that of portraiture: the vivid realistic drawing of characters, sometimes nostalgic, often unflattering, Discuss this statement in the light of the poems you have read. Imagery's effect on poetry imagery is perhaps the most important tool that a writer must possess to be considered great. Imagery may be defined as the representation through language of sense experience. This means that anything written that can be related to one of our senses. In the Poem of Digging by Seamus Heaney, he had used unflattering vivid realistic drawing of character. From various literary devices, as well as graphic imagery the mechanization of the human spirit comes to life in the form of his father, and grandfather. The past and present become one, with the common bond the honest work of the Irish poor. In his own way, and with his own pen, Heaney develops

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