Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Seamus Heaney
- "The Constable Calls"
- ~ A snapshot from the poet's
childhood.
- ~ Themes of fear and
power.
- ~ Personal memory that speaks for
the whole community.
- ~ Constable intrudes into
the private world of the
family.
- ~ Constable described in terms of
his uniform and equipment.
- ~ Cold and impersonal
descriptions.
- ~ Harsh sounds.
- ~ Feelings of guilt, alarm
and dread.
- "The Underground"
- ~ Celebratory
poem.
- ~ Energy and excitement they felt at that
time reflected in the poem's language.
- ~ True to life description of
love.
- ~ Love as desire, pursuit, escape, silence
and perservance.
- ~ Ordinary moment described in terms of
ancient tales and classical stories.
- ~ A love poem without the word
love.
- ~ Not a conventional/usual
ending.
- ~ Poet presented as attentive but
stubborn.
- "A Call"
- ~ Dramatic
opening
- ~ Moves from action to
remembering.
- ~ Further movement from
remembering to thought of death.
- ~ Amplified silence central to
the poem.
- ~ Relief at the sound of his
father's voice.
- ~ Plain and unfussy
language.
- ~ Death
summons.
- ~ Guarded feeling at
the end.