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Seamus Heaney, Owen Sheers - Coggle Diagram
Seamus Heaney
BIOGRAPHICAL
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Moved from Belfast to Glanmore to escape the Troubles and protect his family
Deicates the sonnets to Ann Saddlemyer their host
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Loss
- The Strand at Lough Beg: cousin who was murdered
- A post card from North Antrim: in memory of Sean Armstrong
- Casualty: is based on and the death of Louis O'Neill
- the singer's house: David Hammoned
- In memoriam Sean O'Riada
- Elegy: labour Robert Lowell
- September Song: John Field
- In Memoriam Francis Ledwidge
LITERARY
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Ted Hughes: 'The Thought Fox' ends with 'The page is printed' linking to 'The Otter' 'Printing the Stones'
NATIONAL
The Troubles - death of friends, family and other poets
- from about 1968-98
- protestant unionists who wanted the province of Northern Ireland to remain part of the UK, against the overwhelmingly Catholic nationalists, who wanted Northern Ireland to become part of the republic of Ireland
- other major players where the British Army, Royal Ulster Constabulary and Ulster Defence Regiment whose purpose was to keep peace between the nationalist Irish Republican Army (IRA) and the unionist paramilitary forces
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Northern and growing up there and then moving to Glanmore which is the Republic of Ireland and then Dublin
Bloody Sunday - Casualty is based on and the death of Louis O'Neill
- Sunday, 30th January, 1972, when British paratroopers opened fire on a Roman Catholic civil rights demonstration
- 13 were killed, 14 injured (one of the injured later died)
- began as a peaceful - but illegal - demonstration by 10, 000 people
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The colours 'orange' and 'red, white and blue' are closely associated with Unionism and Loyalism in Northern Ireland
The colour green is associated with the nationalist
POETIC
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'Field Work'
- the poetic field
- shape of a sonnet as a field
- work un the field, the land
- a discovery and investigations
- to convey findings and a message - an active attempt to show ideas and revise poetry
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Owen Sheers
LITERARY
Heaney: Hedge school links to Heaney's poem Blackberry picking
Chaucer: quotes at eh beginning of Hedge School
A poem of inspiration drawing from two poets before him
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BIOGRAPHICAL
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born in Fiji until he was 2 the moved to Wales until he was 9, then moved to London - mixture of national identity
- grew up near Abergavenny on the welsh border
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film as modern viewpoint - the constructed image
written books and has been involved with plays and film and other art forms
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NATIONAL
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decline of the steel industry and closure of pits as part of the country's history but also the impact such as depression in Farmers - the suicide of his friend's father
POETIC
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Skirrid Hill - Skirrid means to shake or tremble and there was a massive landslide on the hill's northern tip and is still prone to landslides. A welsh legend is that the dramatic landslide on the north of the mountain was caused by an earthquake or lightning strike at the moment Christ was crucified