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Seamus Heaney is a famous Ireland writer who has written many award winning poems. ...
In the first stanza of Digging Seamus introduces to us his pen. ... Through that last phrase Heaney expresses his happiness in holding a pen and his comfort and contentment. ... Seamus is witnessing his “father, digging” through flowerbeds. “His straining rump among the flowerbeds,” obviously Seamus’s father is experiencing some hardships trying to turn the soil on the flowerbed. Heaney introduces to us his fathers past in the second and third lines of stanza two. ...
The rest of the poem is based on two of Seamus’s memories from the past, when both were of his father and his grandfather was digging. ... The wording used in this memory expresses that Heaney does not think potato digging is a leisurely or glamorous job. ... Even then Seamus states that he “Loved the cool hardness in our hands. ... Heaney shows expressions of regret and possible guilt that he himself cannot carry out the same tasks as his forefathers before him, “BY God, the old man can handle a spade.” The quote is used in the context so that Heaney seems to be disappointed he also cannot wield a spade.
Heaney’s second memory is one of his grandfather digging turf on Toner’s bog. ... Once again Heaney seems to be exploring his own feelings of inadequacy up against people with such high reputations.
Approximate Word count = 1082
Approximate Pages = 4.3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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