Abstract
Reading through Seamus Heaney's Neu, Selected Poems 1966-19871 was struck by the similarity between. Gionmore Sowlet.5 and Clearances_ Both appeared to be about loss and presented an exercise in coming to terms with it. With this as my starting point E turned to biographical material_ i-iwney, born in 1.3cIfast, Northern Ireland in1939 moved in1972 to Glanrnoref a peaceful country retreat in Wicklow county in Southern Ireland_ The minority Catholic community in Northern Ireland saw this as a betrayal of the land and people living under volatile conditions in Ulster. Heaney saw it likewise and registered his choice a a loss and betrayal of his birthplace, Belfast, Northern Ireland. The Glanmore Sonnet5, which mark the high point of his collection Field Work (1979) sub text the emotive ingredient of an ostensibly quiet existence away from Belfast.
Ayesha F. Barque. (2002) THE ELEGIAC HEANEY-- A reading of Glanniore Sonnets in conjunction with Clearances , Journal of Research ( Humanities), Vol XXXVI, Issue 1.
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