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Door Into the Dark: Poems. Seamus Heaney. 3.99. 462 ratings55 reviews. "Door into the Dark," Heaney's second collection of poems, first appeared in 1969. Already his widely celebrated gifts of precision, thoughtfulness, and musicality were everywhere apparent. Genres Poetry Ireland Literature 20th Century Irish Literature. 56 pages, Paperback.
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Door into the Dark (1969) is a poetry collection by Seamus Heaney, who received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Poems include " Requiem for the Croppies ", "Thatcher" and "The Wife's Tale". Heaney has been recorded reading this collection on the Seamus Heaney Collected Poems album.
- Seamus Heaney
- 1969
5 de mar. de 2018 · All I know is a door into the dark, Outside, old axles and iron hoops rusting; Inside, the hammered anvil’s short-pitched ring, The unpredictable fantail of sparks. Or hiss when a new shoe toughens in water. The anvil must be somewhere in the centre, Horned as a unicorn, at one end square, Set there immoveable: an altar.
4 de fev. de 2014 · Door into the Dark, Seamus Heaney's second collection of poems, first appeared in 1969. Already his widely celebrated gifts of precision, thoughtfulness, and musicality were...
Door Into The Dark. Seamus Heaney’s second collection, Door into the Dark, was published in 1969. With the sensuousness and physicality of language that would become the hallmark of his early writing, its poems graphically depict the author’s rural upbringing, from the ‘fantail of sparks’ in the local forge to the eel-fishermen on the ...
In this collection, Heaney writes that “words themselves are doors”. They provide point of entry into “the dark centre, the blurred and irrational storehouse of insight and instinct, the hidden core of the self.” Darkness is approached as a landscape of investigation to probe into the deeper levels of consciousness. The dark prevails in
Indeed, Heaney's earliest poetry collections— Death of a Naturalist (1966) and Door into the Dark (1969)—evoke "a hard, mainly rural life with rare exactness," according to critic and Parnassus contributor Michael Wood.
