Digging by Seamus Heaney

Digging -by seamus Heaney The poet, Seamus Heaney uses simple spoken language in his poem which is beautifully portrayed as well as easy to understand. The poem is essentially about the poets respect and admiration of his fathers and granddads hard work. The poem begins in the bounty tense form. The poet, Heaney, is in his room, writing while his father is take away. It can be assumed that the poet is near a window so that when he looks foreign he can see his father digging. It is important to note that Heaney looks raze at his fathers straining rump.Literally his position at the window is eminent but we as well get the sense that Heaney somehow feels superior to valet de chambreual of arms work and that he does not like this feeling. The next stanza takes us impale to previous years before his fathers retirement from farming Bends low, comes up twenty years away. We move effortlessly and beautifully from the front day flowerbed to the previous years potato drills. The poe t then begins to cover his fathers skills. The paradoxical coarse boot nestled tapes the physicality and hardwork of digging aboard the adore his father has for it.Heaney uses a two line stanza beginning with the exclamatory By God to take us further back to his grandfathers digging skills. The exclamation and the conversational tone add a feeling of creation with Heaney as he reminisces. Neatly Heaney has taken us back to his forefathers to show that working with the land has always been a tradition in the family. He has broken this chain by choosing to become a writer. The next stanza is a memory of visiting his grandfather as he cuts peat from the bog.The bottle secure sloppily with paper reflects Heaneys clumsiness in practical matters but also a different use of paper to the one he is genuinely skilled at. This is a family proud of their achievements which are measured by a spade and the ability to handle one My grandfather could cut more turf in a day than any other m an on Toners bog. The penultimate stanza reveals the difficulties created by Heaneys wish to write. The curt cuts finished living roots are not only the sharp inch of the spade cutting through living turf.They are the sharp words spoken as Heaney cuts his ties with his familys traditional means of earning a living. And so we take back to the beginning lines of the poem with the significant change from as snug as a gun to Ill dig with it. Heaney recognizes that his skill with a pen is alike(p) to that of his forefathers with a spade. He also realizes that he can continue the love for skilled work with the land through his writing. Just as his grandfather was digging down and down for the good turf so leave Heaney dig down and down for the good stuff that makes his poetry so exquisite.