Actions do not always speak louder than words
... Routine is not usually something one thinks of as a personal event, but if someone were to break that person’s routine then one would be devastated. ... This specific moment represents not only a defying change in his mother’s condition, but also a turning point in Heaney’s life. ... He used words that seemed to be opposites of each other to express the confusion he had as to what he was supposed to do with the memories once he had split them apart. ... In the last sonnet Heaney uses words that make one think that he decides to let go of the memories after he has turned them into this group of sonnets.