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What are the preoccupations of Seamus Heaney’s poetry and how does he explore them?
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... Wednesday, 03 July 2002 What are the preoccupations of Seamus Heaney's poetry and how does he explore them? Heaney was born on April 13, 1939, the eldest of nine children. He grew up on the family's farm, Mossbawn in County Derry. The three poems I have selected are from Death of a Naturalist. These are; Digging, Follower and Mid-term break, I will explore these poems and search for Heaney's main preoccupations that can be found throughout his poems in Death of a Naturalist. The poem Digging was the first in the anthology so had to set the scene, so to speak for the other poems in the anthology. Digging deals with Heaney's poetry and how he will use it in relation to his family. The poem opens with Heaney contemplating the use of his poetry, "Between my finger and thumb the squat pen rests; snug as a gun." Here Heaney talks
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