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Seamus Heaney 's "The Early Purges" and "Mid Term Break"?
Summary: Seamus Heaney is one of the greatest poets in recent years and often writes about his childhood. I believe this is because he is trying to understand his own childhood and how his early experiences affected him. This is evidenced in The Early Purges and Mid Term Break.
Seamus Heaney is one of the greatest poets in recent years and often writes about his childhood. I believe this is because he is trying to understand his own childhood and how his early experiences affected him. As our childhoods form the people, we are.
Heaney was born on April 1939.He was the eldest of nine children and grew up on a farm in Ireland. He later left his farmer lifestyle and moved to civilization to become a poet. Why did he move? I believe his writings will help us answer that. In my opinion, a typical Irish farmer would be a man who would have learnt to block out his emotions and feelings and be a "real man." Heaney uses his emotions or in the case of "Mid Term Break" not, to create powerful, moving poetry. I believe to be a successful poet; you have to learn...
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