Journey Back to the Omphalos in Heaney’s Later Poetry
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Heaney’s whole poetry seems to have a tri-partite structure: leaving home, wandering, and coming home. In the later poems in Seeing Things, The Spirit Level, Electric Light, and Human Chain, he raises the question of the solidity of the known physical world; asks where the spirit lives; and shows the journey back to his spiritual center. Re-reading his later works Seeing Things and Electric Light, I find they are featured with journey back into his omphalos. By this, I mean the journey back to his home, and back to his parents, and back to the Irish spiritual world without the boundary between the concrete and the abstract, which is also perceived to be a journey back to Irish literary tradition and back to ancient Greek and Roman literary tradition.
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Heaney’s whole poetry seems to have a tri-partite structure: leaving home, wandering, and coming home. In the later poems in Seeing Things, The Spirit Level, Electric Light, and Human Chain, he raises the question of the solidity of the known physical world; asks where the spirit lives; and shows the journey back to his spiritual center. Re-reading his later works Seeing Things and Electric Light, I find they are featured with journey back into his omphalos. By this, I mean the journey back to his home, and back to his parents, and back to the Irish spiritual world without the boundary between the concrete and the abstract, which is also perceived to be a journey back to Irish literary tradition and back to ancient Greek and Roman literary tradition.
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- Heaney, Seamus, "Human Chain" (2010), Faber and Faber
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- Michael Parker, "‘His Nibs’: Self-reflexivity and the Significance of Translation in Seamus Heaney’s “Human Chain"", Irish University Review, 42(2), pp.327~350 (2012)
- Ramazani, Jahan, "Poetry of Mourning: The Modern Elegy from Hardy to Heaney" (1994), U of Chicago P