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District and Circle is a poetry collection by Seamus Heaney, who received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. It was published in 2006 and won the 2006 T. S. Eliot Prize, the most prestigious poetry award in the UK. The collection also won the Irish Times "Poetry Now Award".
- Seamus Heaney
- 76
- 2006
- 1 April 2006 (1st edition)
- Section One
- Section Two
- Section Three
- Section Four
- Section Five
This first section depicts a meeting (“To where I knew I was always going to find/My watcher on the tiles”). This figure moves around the underground space, among the ‘shades’ of it, and he/she appears to meet the lyrical voice regularly (“I was always going to find”). The lyrical voice describes his/her movements down the underground and how this ...
This second section of ‘District and Circle’ constructs a portrait of the underground scene. The lyrical voice describes the constant movement and the continuous motion of this subterranean world. There is an emphasis on constructing the underground as a place full of senses; from sight (“Posted, eyes front, along the dreamy ramparts”) to audition ...
This third section continues to describe the subterranean world in which the lyrical voice is submerged. The lyrical voice continues to go deeper and deeper into the underground (“Another level down, the platform thronged”). There is a description of the crowd of the underground and how it moves in that particular space (“Like a human chain, the pu...
This fourth section depicts the lyrical voice’s usage of the underground. The lyrical voice describes in detail how he enters the subway and the experience of taking this kind of transport (“Stepping on to it across the gap,/On to the carriage metal, I reached to grab/The stubby black roof-wort”). The lyrical voice positions him/herself in the habi...
This final section of ‘District and Circle’ concludes the description of the underground. The lyrical voice emphasizes on the scenery of the underground by stating that he/she is “So deeper into it”. Moreover, the lyrical voice depicts the feeling to be “crowd-swept, strap-hanging” and the moment of stopping at each station (“Again the growl/Of shu...
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District and Circle. PDF Cite. Seamus Heaney’s reputation as the greatest Irish poet since William Butler Yeats has been based not only on his beautifully crafted, richly textured language...
In this article, we will delve into Heaney’s District and Circle, a collection of poems that explores themes of memory, identity, and loss. Through a close reading of select poems, we will examine Heaney’s use of language, imagery, and form to convey his ideas and emotions.
28 de out. de 2021 · Internet Archive. Language. English. 78 pages ; 22 cm. Seamus Heaney's new collection starts "In an age of bare hands and cast iron" and ends as "The automatic lock / clunks shut" in the eerie new conditions of a menaced twenty-first century.
DISTRICT AND CIRCLE. The itinerary of Seamus Heaney’s 2006 volume, District and Circle, begins ‘in an age of bare hands and cast iron’ and ends as ‘The automatic lock / Clunks shut’, in the new conditions of a menacing 21st century. Scenes from a childhood spent far from the horrors of World War II are coloured by a strongly ...
Summary. PDF Cite Share. Seamus Heaney’s District and Circle consists primarily of lyric verse composed in a variety of forms. Most notably, Heaney returns to and elaborates upon many themes...
