Our 30th podcast is one of an occasional series on poems on the Irish
Leaving Certificate English course. This examines Seamus Heaney's poem
'Sunlight', one of the dedicatory poems called 'Mossbawn', which open
his 1975 collection North.
'Sunlight' is a poem of great
warmth, recreating a scene from his childhood on the family farm,
suffused with the love of and for his aunt Mary. However, it also
prefigures disturbance and the eventual disappearance of such an idyll
in a more violent society. Listen to the poet reading the poem above, and the commentary below.
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2 comments:
Memories of my Leaving Cert flooding back here! Always liked Heaney's poetry, the most vivid imagery.
Yes, Nigel - and many other fine poems too on the course.
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