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In Search of Identity in Language and Irish Geography: On Seamus Heaney’s Wintering Out
WU Kai-su
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2017.06.002
Tamkang University, Taipei, Taiwan
Seamus Heaney in his lifespan of 74 years is lauded not only for his great accomplishment in the field of poetry, but also for his translation, editing and literary criticism. Yet, when it comes to socio-political affairs, the poet is not a unanimous favorite. Far from being an influential political activist sometimes anticipated by his friends and countrymen in Ireland, Heaney resorted to his search for identities and for answers to his nation’s predicament in the world of words. As a poetic collection published during the political unrest in the seventies, Wintering Out discloses Heaney’s composition of the dialectic between the aesthetic and the historical. In this essay, the author will look into Heaney’s four poems in the collection, in which the poet’s linguistic as well as geographical survey of his hometown is indispensible for readers who intend to discern his attitude in the critical period of his artistic formation.
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