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Here and in many others of Heaney's poems, body and land are one: the undersoil is richly strewn with bits of bone from people who have lived and died in the past. "Bone Dreams" (1975) recalls the Song of Solomon, as the bodies of the poet and his lover merge into the landscape...

Author: By Adam K. Goodheart, | Title: Seamus Heaney's Poetry: Excavating His Irish Roots | 9/28/1990 | See Source »

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