Seamus Heaney (Text Only) by Helen Vendler

Author:Helen Vendler [Vendler, Helen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780007400133
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 1998-04-18T04:00:00+00:00

are made to seem normal in the aura of corpses and bigotry. And while there might seem to be balm in the obsequious social approval offered a new priest – ‘ “Father” pronounced with a fawning relish, / the sunlit tears of parents being blessed’ (SI, 69) – the poem, in the mutually critical colloquy between priest and poet, harrowingly turns to the priest’s own horror at life in the foreign missions:

‘The rain forest,’ he said,

‘you’ve never seen the like of it. I lasted

only a couple of years. Bare-breasted

women and rat-ribbed men. Everything wasted.

I rotted like a pear. I sweated masses …’

[SI, 69]

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