On Seamus Heaney by Roy Foster

Author:Roy Foster [Foster, Roy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780691174372
Publisher: PrincetonUP
Published: 2020-06-05T00:00:00+00:00

The Sweeney section of Station Island ends with ‘On the Road’, where the migratory bird-poet finds eventual refuge in the decorated prehistoric caves of Lascaux in the Dordogne: yet another visit to the underground. But the sequence opens with a poem, ‘Sweeney Redivivus’, suggesting that the travel will always also be a matter of return, and that growing fame is something that presents its own kind of traps.

I stirred wet sand and gathered myself

to climb the steep-flanked mound,

my head like a ball of wet twine

dense with soakage, but beginning

to unwind.

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