ENG 342RW Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Seamus Heaney, Croppy, Protestantism
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In 1970s-he moved to the republic of ireland, giving up his academic post and becoming a full tiem writer w 3 young kids. It freed him to write more directly about the troubles. Act of union - seamus heaney: poem is about gendering the land itself as a woman"s body. Ireland is always perceived as the female, england is the male. easier to grasp: tile: act of union (sex is often considered an act of union) the word act reinforces the idea of power and action. Ireland as a stretchmarked body will never be complete again as it was before. Requiem for the croppies - heaney: rebellion of 1798, funeral march song, croppies- rebels, we= us as the croppies. No sophisticated weaponry: and in august the barley grew up out of the grave. circles back to the beginning. Isn"t trying to find ways to memorialiaze like some other poets.
