Word: poeticizing
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...This poetic travelogue tries to reconcile two voices. In "An Afterwards," one voice, in the persona of his wife, asks...
SOMETIMES SPARSE, always evocative, Heaney's imagery and use of metaphor facilitates his transferral of personal circumstance into poetic experience. In "The Guttural Muse," for example, the poet describes the noise and the young people leaving a discotheque...
...some memory of Irish soldiers and artists), along with one particularly striking lament for Robert Lowell, whom he calls "our night ferry Thudding in the sea." He admires Lowell as one who "drank America/Like the heart's/Iron vodka...," and these lines of veneration acquaint us with Heaney's intrinsic poetic spirit. Like Lowell, he wants to glean all that he can from his environment...
...ruin them, because each work relies on the momentum of one line following another. Heaney strings words together like notes in a finely-tuned melody, and to untangle them would not do his work justice. Even in the little poem, we witness a poet who connects ambiguities through a poetic magnetism, when he utters "You are stained, stained/To perfection...
Never had frustration such poetic license...