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Aifric Kyne
(2/22/2009 7:54:00 AM) |
i dont think the 'poppy bruise ' has anything to do with being remembered.
i think its just a way heaney describes seeing his brother dead and instead of writing 'the bruise on his head was massive and red and multi coloured' he wrote 'poppy bruise' to soften it make him appear a rest and peaceful. x
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Amy Curran
(1/27/2009 8:57:00 AM) |
I think that this poem is highly interesting. we analised it in english and i loved. i am currently writing an essay on it. :) . It is very sad the last line. telling readers that heaney's younger brother was only 4 years old...
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Native Dreamer
(1/9/2009 5:05:00 PM) |
This poem has set in the minds of so many Irish schoolchildren. I often recited it to my family as a child and its message and rhythm touched my family deeply. It almost requires no effort to memorize and its words are etched in my mind and those of my classmates. Mise le meas.
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Martin O'neill
(12/11/2008 5:01:00 AM) |
This as beautiful as Bob Dowl and Vincent Deprat are philistines.
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Charlotte Mccallum
(12/6/2008 11:20:00 AM) |
Trip Winters, I don't think that the poppy was a reference to it being near Rememberance Day, or anything. I think that it's because of the idea that he would remember him- the langauge at that part of the poem is sort of softer and maybe calmer and I think that from that, he was able to think about remembering him, because before he had been much too upset. I hadn't thought of the connection between the poppy and opiates, but that's interesting... I also don't know about the references to Irish history.
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Dan Ryan
(12/2/2008 7:55:00 AM) |
Tripp,
I think you are wrong to say the phrase 'it was a hard blow' has nothing to do with the car hitting the little boy. This is poetry! ! Phrases such as that are always used for a purpose.
Big Jim Evans does not use the phrase to refer to the car hitting the child but the poet does. It is probably not a literal transcription of events. The poet knows exactly what he is doing and why he uses this language.
At this early stage in the poem he has not revealed the cause of death but I feel that we are given a clue in Big Jim Evans' words (though a very subtle one) .
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Tripp Winters
(11/3/2008 4:22:00 PM) |
In reply to Sinead Nolan, the boy died by being hit by car, 'the bumper knocked him clear' and the fact the the 'poppy' bruise was on his left temple also suggests this. The 'poppy' part of it is there for imagry. It shows the colour of the bruise yet also, the poppy suggest a time of death as they are related with 'Remeberance Day.'
But the ' it was a hard blow' comment hasn't got anything to do with the car hitting him. It's just a euphimisum that used by 'Big Jim Evans'. It's said instead of saying 'I'm sorry your son was killed' which would make the family feel worse. It's there to help comfort the dad in a way that doesn't hurt him more. They're used often in the poem.
Anyway this poem is amazing. I just read it last week during English Class and I loved it. This is the second poem I've ever liked and the best one I've read at school so far.
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Helen Barrett
(8/14/2008 8:12:00 PM) |
i completly disagree with vincent and according to his second name i can see where he gets it coz he is a prat! i think he is emotionless....this is my favourite poem ever from start to finish
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Johnny Muir
(6/17/2008 7:44:00 AM) |
Hi, I work for the BBC in Belfast and am working on a documentary to mark Seamus Heaney's 70th birthday. His work is studied (and written about in exams) by people all over the world and I am trying to find out what impact it has them. In this poem he writes about events in Co Derry, Ireland in the 1950s - yet it clearly has a resonance today. I would love to hear anyone's comments on what Heaney's poetry means to them. Tell me about individual poems that have made an impact on you and why!
Cheers,
johnny.muir@bbc.co.uk
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Vincent Deprat
(5/6/2008 11:47:00 PM) |
Gay.
You women have nopthing else to do go get a life
go bob doyle
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