Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) Irish poet. He was born in Mausbon County, Derry County, northern Ireland, into a devout Catholic family that has been farming for generations. Heaney is not only a poet, but also an expert in poetry. Won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995. His Nobel Prize Lecture "Crediting Poetry" (1996) is also an important poetic theory. He also wrote a screenplay. Heaney's translation of the Old English epic poem Beowulf (2000) into modern English became a sensation. He is recognized as the best English poet and gifted literary critic in the world today. Heaney received formal British education since childhood and graduated with first place in the English Department of Queen's University Belfast in 1961. After graduation, he worked as a secondary school teacher for a year. At the same time, he read a lot of Irish and British modern poetry, looking for ways to combine the British literary tradition with the experience of rural life in County Derry. In 1966, he became famous with his collection of poems "Death of a Naturalist". From 1966 to 1972, Heaney served as a lecturer in modern literature at his alma mater and witnessed the riots caused by Catholics in Northern Ireland demonstrating for civil rights. [1] On August 30, 2013, Irish poet Seamus Heaney passed away at the age of 74. [2]
Heaney’s poems are simple and natural, flowing with the blood of his ancestors and exuding the fragrance of the land. [2] Heaney inherited the legacy of Irish literature
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The excellent tradition of Nepal is famous for pastoral lyric poems full of emotional color. For example, in the opening chapter of "Picking Plums", the poet describes the season and environment for picking berries: "the end of August", "heavy rain" and "scorching sun". "Inflamed". This is the time when blackberries are ripe and delicious. Then the poet elaborates and renders, vividly describing the ripe and delicious blackberries at one point from the aspects of shape, color, taste, state, etc. The blackberry "at first was just a small one, shining with crystal clear purple" "mixed among the red flowers and green leaves", it was a "hard little bump", inconspicuous. But the taste of "tasting the first piece" is so "delicious" and tempting. Immediately afterwards, the author used a unique metaphor - the ripe blackberries all over the mountains and fields "are like settled wine: absorbing all the beauty of summer", and further strengthened and highlighted this refreshing beauty and feeling from the surface. . [8]
Heaney's poetry also has a strong national flavor and contains rich philosophy in daily life. He also conducted in-depth research and introduction to ancient Greek and British epics, thus broadening his horizons. The field of expression of modern poetry. [8] He calmly explored and tasted the Irish national spirit with a modern and civilized vision. Although he has an academic background, he has absolutely no academic self-admiration. [2] In 12 collections of poems, he described Irish rural life, praised the land, nature, and ancient morality, thought about Ireland's complex history and political conflicts, and tried to awaken people's awareness of tolerance and reconciliation in his works. Like his predecessor, the Irish poet Yeats, Heaney's name is inseparable from his native Ireland, and like Yeats, his simple and profound poetry can reach a wide range of people in different countries and times.
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