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Heaney spoke of the connection that a poem read out loud forms between speaker and listener, calling it “the thing that passed between us.” Heaney especially emphasized the oral tradition of memorized “rote” verse, citing what Yeats called “entering the belly of the whale...
That his newest work is a play, Burial at Thebes, perhaps reflects Heaney’s emphasis on oral tradition best. Ireland’s Abbey Theatre commissioned him to pen this new translation of Antigone for its centenary celebration...
Heaney’s reliance on the most basic, visceral elements of the original Greek in his translation emphasizes the utterly human element of the drama. He underscores the rhythmic, oral quality that he prizes in his own work, and helps present unfettered what he calls the “fury of infinite feeling” of his characters...
...most superficial level, yes, “Yale sucks, Jeter swallows,” is just another light-hearted way of saying, “I dislike both Yale and Jeter.” Nevertheless, the underlying message is clear: sucking and swallowing, or performing oral sex on men, is a degrading act, and to do so is synonymous with inferiority. This shirt is “funny” only because it is understood that to be accused of being gay, to be accused of being womanly, is to be shamed...
While it is true that insults such as “suck” and “swallow” have been incorporated into everyday speech to the point where, in certain contexts, their origin meaning is lost. This is not one of those contexts. The reference to oral sex rings loud and clear. How much more explicitly homophobic must a slogan be before it is no longer acceptable. What about “Yale and Jeter are cock-suckers,” or “Yale and Jeter are fags”—does everyone...