Seamus Heaney: Poem summaries & tips for Leaving Cert English Poetry. Studied Poetry, Revision

If you’re studying the poetry of Seamus Heaney for the Leaving Cert, this podcast is for you!

English teacher Laura Daly joins us to give you ideas and in-depth analysis you can use in your poetry essays.

Laura covers different aspects of Heaney's poetry in this podcast and examines each of her poems on the syllabus in detail.

Leaving Cert English students will be doing a select number of poems so there are timecodes below for each section so you can skip to the ones you’re studying.

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Timecodes:

00:00 - Introduction
1:46 - Background and Poetic Influences
05:31 - Poem 1: Bogland
08:29 - Poem 2: The Tollund Man
12:21 - Poem 3: Mossbawn: Two Poems in Dedication 1 Sunlight
14:47 - Poem 4: A Constable Calls
17:39 - Poem 5: A Call
20:35 - Poem 6: The Harvest Bow
24:40 - Poem 7: The Pitchfork
28:33 - Poem 8: The Forge
32:37 - Poem 9 : The Underground
36:36 - Poem 10: The Skunk
39:41 - Poem 11: Tate’s Avenue
42:45 - Poem 12: Postscript
46:39 - Poem 13: Lightenings, viii: ‘The Annals Say’
48:38 - Conclusion

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