Poetry: Seamus Heaney Long Essay

... Poetry: Seamus Heaney Long Essay Poetic techniques allow experience to be represented in an intense and compressed way. The poem "The Grauballe Man", from one of Seamus Heaney's collection called New Selected Poems, contains many similes and metaphors that represents Heaney's experience in a powerful and condensed way when he first looked upon a corpse known as 'The Grauballe Man'. "The Grauballe Man", like "The Tollund Man" is another meditation on the preserved corpse of a Scandinavian victim dug up from the peat bogs. But where "The Tollund Man" was concerned to draw a parallel between an Irish present and a Danish past and to affirm something from that kinship, the emphasis in "The Grauballe Man" is different. Essentially the poem is about different ways of regarding corpses. The poem starts, unusually for Heaney, with a series of descriptions which are set up as similes and not metaphors, that is they

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