So I have an essay assignment and I thought I'd post a little something here and try to come up with an idea or two in that way. So basically the assignment is supposed to come to a conclusion about what I think the violence that is being portrayed in a few poems is operating as. The poet is Seamus Heaney and the violence is in Northern Ireland... which if you've never heard of Seamus Heaney the short version is people split over whether he's reflecting real life as he sees it or his ritualized treatment of the violence is elevating it to some other place.

So I guess I'll post the two poems that I was thinking of using, the first one is from his first collection of poems. The second is from the collection that got him into trouble with people leveling the accusations of him trying to imbue senseless violence with some sort of reason. Anyways, the poems are kind of long so they are under a cut ... that's about it and I guess we see what you guys think if that's alright? :P

( Zee Poems )