셰이머스 히니 시에 나타난 후각적 기억의 소환과 균형감
Evocation and Perspective of Olfactory Memories in Seamus Heaney’s Poems
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This paper aims to explore the literary and philosophical aspects of smell and its significance in Seamus Heaney’s poems. It analyzes the role of olfactory imagery in recalling past experiences and providing a perspective on the present. His poems, “Digging” and “Death of a Naturalist,” are permeated with distinct odors that serve as catalysts for memory: cow dung and potatoes. “Personal Helicon” is a nostalgic tribute to a well from Heaney’s childhood, a place that adults never paid much attention to. As an adult, Heaney recognizes this place as the source and inspiration for his poetic writing, reminiscent of his childhood days of play and imagination at the well. The smell of aquatic vegetation, fungus, and dank moss lingers in the speaker’s memory as he recalls the past. “Night Drive” appears to be a love poem infused with the “smell of ordinariness,” evoking olfactory images of his wife in a foreign land. Its structure echoes the arrangement of the first and last poems in Heaney’s initial collection, Death of a Naturalist, showcasing a unique feature of his poetry that seamlessly blends the past and present in a circular fashion while retaining its originality. The eighth collection, Spirit Level, includes poems such as “Keeping Going” and “Mint,” both of which reference a tool designed to determine the horizontal or vertical orientation of a surface. Heaney’s unique perspective stems from his refusal to differentiate between scents and odors, or between historical memories of the past and the present reality, allowing them to coexist as they are.
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This paper aims to explore the literary and philosophical aspects of smell and its significance in Seamus Heaney’s poems. It analyzes the role of olfactory imagery in recalling past experiences and providing a perspective on the present. His poems, “Digging” and “Death of a Naturalist,” are permeated with distinct odors that serve as catalysts for memory: cow dung and potatoes. “Personal Helicon” is a nostalgic tribute to a well from Heaney’s childhood, a place that adults never paid much attention to. As an adult, Heaney recognizes this place as the source and inspiration for his poetic writing, reminiscent of his childhood days of play and imagination at the well. The smell of aquatic vegetation, fungus, and dank moss lingers in the speaker’s memory as he recalls the past. “Night Drive” appears to be a love poem infused with the “smell of ordinariness,” evoking olfactory images of his wife in a foreign land. Its structure echoes the arrangement of the first and last poems in Heaney’s initial collection, Death of a Naturalist, showcasing a unique feature of his poetry that seamlessly blends the past and present in a circular fashion while retaining its originality. The eighth collection, Spirit Level, includes poems such as “Keeping Going” and “Mint,” both of which reference a tool designed to determine the horizontal or vertical orientation of a surface. Heaney’s unique perspective stems from his refusal to differentiate between scents and odors, or between historical memories of the past and the present reality, allowing them to coexist as they are.
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