Irish Identity in Seamus Heaney Selected Poems
Abstract
This paper aims the thematic analysis of Irish identity in the noble winner's poems, Seamus Heaney. Through the history of Ireland and its people how they suffered under the British Imperialism beside the sectarian conflicts that held in Ireland. Heaney's Bog poems search about the origins of Irish identity, through his first four collection, Death of the Naturalist, Door into the Dark, Wintering Out, and North. The selected poems of these four collections are like a chain for the bog poems of Heaney which is about bog people as Heaney used them as a symbol to Irish identity.
Keywords: Identity, Irish identity , Bog poems , British Imperialism
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