A Drink of Water-Heaney
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- Created on: 06-03-21 11:39
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- Seamus Heaney
- Rural labour interpretations with 'pump' and 'bucket' in the setting of a 'field'- Experience of farming as a boy- direct overlap with speaker and poet
- A Drink of Water
- Devices
- Published in Heaney's 1979 volume of Fieldwork
- Single stanza poem. Total of 14 lines.
- Heaney incorporates peaceful evocations of his boyhood to set a calm mood and nostalgic tone
- Structure
- A Drink of Water
- Devices
- A Drink of Water
- Assonance with repetitive use of 'A'
- 'water','draw','apron','back' etc.
- Designed to unsettle reader with troubling connotations of 'full moon' and 'bat'
- Undertone of darkness can be associated with elegy style poems
- Undertone of approaching death with the connotations of elderly
- Undertone of darkness can be associated with elegy style poems
- 'Remember the giver' (italicized)
- Reinforces the religious belief that a receiver should remain faithful to a giver
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