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Analysis Of Digging By Seamus Heaney Essay

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My poetry Explication Digging by Seamus Heaney has lot to offer when come to poetry explication. It’s great showing of symbols, imagery, allusion, and metaphors but how might this poem about a simple having simple dream about his father digging be so packed with literally items.

First I’m going to evaluate Heaney poem stanza by stanza. To start things out with lines one and two. We are drawn close in to “between my finger and my thumb the squat pen rests; snug as a gun. The writer has tuned into the pen almost like weapon ready to fire on to the paper. We can see this first two lines we have two literary items first the writer kinda throws us a smile by saying the pen is like a gun as the pen feels like a weapon ready to be used. Then we have internal rhyme with snug and gun being used. Lastly the writer displays both objects as tool fitting for a poem named digging. As we later learn that the son is remorneing about his father and grandfather perhaps maybe this was his way get over that the pen was a tool to end that from beginning by him writing which maybe why Seamus use reference to a gun because it possible end the main character turmoil over his father and grandfather.

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“ the first part this stanza ten through eleven really deals with digging as it talks about how rough the boots look which another thing connected to blue collar image. It also talks about the father digging in to the earth and how he does jis work with his spade as you see this poem is definitely about work. In the next lines he talks about specifically digging potatoes out of the ground then the writer for first mentions something him and his father did together which was picking potatoes. This poem doesn’t have rhyme but there’s definitely a pattern going here in this stanza about the father doing work or repetitive

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