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Part Two: Station Island – the Sequence. Part 2 traces a ‘pilgrim’s progress’; Heaney composes a sequence of 12 poems under a chosen topological heading. At least twenty five years separate his original experiences on Station Island and the moment at which he chooses the location to draw together the different strands.
Station Island is the sixth collection of original poetry written by the Northern Irish poet Seamus Heaney, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. It is dedicated to the Northern Irish playwright Brian Friel.
Station Island is the sixth collection of original poetry written by Irish poet Seamus Heaney, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. It is dedicated to the Northern Irish playwright Brian Friel.
Contents Foreword followed by: Main Sources; the Structure of Station Island; biographical ‘events’ between 1976-1984; the collection and its moment; Heaney’s ‘book of changes’; ‘hampering stuff’; Catholic beginnings; loss of faith; breaking loose; the political dimension; ‘Troubles’ timeline; poetry and politics: retaining a neutral voice; reconciling the clash between ...
Heaney and Dante (1): ‘Field Work’. Dante's first appearance in Heaney's poetry is in 1979's Field Work. Dante is present most substantially in the closing poem, ‘Ugolino,’ a translation from cantos XXXII and XXXIII of the Inferno, but his presence is implicit throughout. Six of the forty-one poems in the collection are elegies.
Abstract. W hen Seamus Heaney sets out to perform his own rigorous self-examination, he heads not to his dining room, nor to the cemetery or the Caribbean, but, instead, for Station Island, in County Donegal’s Lough Derg. According to legend (and to some medieval maps), a cave on the island is the opening to Hell.
Station Island – the Sequence VIII. If the aim of his Lough Derg pilgrimage was for Heaney to chastise his soul then he is not about to spare himself. The mood has changed: the soothing clear water of VII is replaced by the growing turbulence of some Wagnerian overture. The whole scene is chiaroscuro – gathering storm – black water ...
