I suppose I'm saying that defiance is actually part of the … - Seamus Heaney

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I suppose I'm saying that defiance is actually part of the lyric job

Seamus Heaney

prosody poetry poets

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About Seamus Heaney

Seamus Justin Heaney (13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright, and translator. In 1995 he won the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Alternative Names: Seamus Justin Heaney

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Terrible times. I managed to come through But I never healed. My whole life has been Just one long cruel parody.

"Since when," he asked,
"Are the first line and last line of any poem
Where the poem begins and ends?"

God is a foreman with certain definite views
Who orders life in shifts of work and leisure.