Heaney's Tradition: Is it something to carry on, or to change?
...do so. I think that Heaney wanted to follow tradition for the sole purpose of making his father proud of him. In a way, he did follow tradition by digging, but instead with a pen. He did what was his talent, what was his love, which is the same that his father and grandfather did. Heaney did not have talent in the field, when his father and grandfather were the best of the best, but he could write and be the best in writing. But in another sense, Heaney completely rebelled against tradition. Whereas his father and grandfather were hard-working farmers that labored in a field all day long, Heaney was a writer who stayed inside and watched his father work and would write only when inspired. He had done what he wanted to do, and had completely broken all the rules of a traditional Irish society. Heaney, in my opinion, wanted thing...