Seamus Heaney and the Emblems of HopeUniversity of Missouri Press, 2007 - 212 sidor "Explores Seamus Heaney's adaptation of the Celtic ritual known as the Feis of Tara, demonstrates the sovereignty motif's continued relevance in works by Irish poets Thomas Kinsella, John Montague, Eavan Boland, and Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, and refutes criticism that charges sexism and overemphasizes sacrifice in Heaney's poetry"--Provided by publisher. |
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| 9 | |
2 Millennia in Their Eyes | 44 |
3 Heaneys Love to Ireland | 72 |
4 The Fish and the Fisher King | 89 |
5 Bridegroom to the Goddess | 108 |
6 Remembering the Giver | 126 |
Appendix to Chapter 6 | 163 |
Conclusion Praying at the Waters Edge | 167 |
Bibliography | 177 |
Index | 199 |
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Seamus Heaney and the Emblems of Hope Karen Marguerite Moloney Fragmentarisk förhandsgranskning - 2007 |
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Sida 44 - The necessity that he shall conform, that he shall cohere, is not onesided ; what happens when a new work of art is \ created is something that happens simultaneously to all the works of art which preceded it. The existing monuments form an ideal order among themselves, which is modified by the introduction of the new (the really new) work of art among them.
Sida 38 - Silk of the kine and poor old woman, names given her in old times. A wandering crone, lowly form of an immortal serving her conqueror and her gay betrayer, their common cuckqueen, a messenger from the secret morning.
Sida 85 - ... if some princes in the world had them, they would soon hope to be lords of all the seas, and ere long of all the world...
Sida 78 - Mayds of Honour up against a tree in a Wood ('twas his first Lady) who seemed at first boarding to be something fearful! of her Honour, and modest, she cryed, sweet Sir Walter, what doe you me ask? Will you undoe me? Nay, sweet Sir Walter! Sweet Sir Walter! Sir Walter! At last, as the danger and the pleasure at the same time grew higher, she cryed in the extasey, Swisser Swatter Swisser Swatter.
Sida 83 - The ruined maid complains in Irish, Ocean has scattered her dream of fleets, The Spanish prince has spilled his gold And failed her.
Sida 3 - You have a society in [the] Iron Age where there was ritual bloodletting and killing to a goddess of the territory of the ground. You have a society where girls' heads were shaved for adultery, you have a religion centering on the territory, on a goddess of the ground and of the land and associated with sacrifice. Now in many ways the fury of Irish Republicanism is associated with a religion like this, with a female goddess who has appeared in various guises. She appears as Cathleen Ni Houlihan in...
Sida 75 - Finally, every way the curse of God was so great, and the land so barren both of man and beast, that whosoever did travel from...
Sida 2 - From that moment, the problems of poetry moved from being simply a matter of achieving the satisfactory verbal icon to being a search for images and symbols adequate to our predicament.
Sida 3 - It was chiefly concerned with preserved bodies of men and women found in the bogs of Jutland, naked, strangled or with their throats cut, disposed under the peat since early Iron Age times. The author, PV Glob, argues convincingly that a number of these, and in particular the Tollund Man, whose head is now preserved near Aarhus in the museum at Silkeburg, were ritual sacrifices to the Mother Goddess, the goddess of the ground who needed new bridegrooms each winter to bed with her in her sacred place,...