a drink of water

Seamus Heaney “A Drink of Water”

Seamus Heaney’s poem “A drink of water” is about an old woman that was close to her death also she stays in the country which is a very small population. Her home was almost in the middle of nowhere. She stayed alone with her dog. The dog was gray and possibly old, she and her dog go to the lake every day to get water; Not only for her but her dog too. And they repeat that process like every other day.

Heaney was one of the good poets in the late twentieth century. Using language that ranges from, and good mixes, sexual metaphor and natural imagery, Heaney define Irish life as it contains to the past. He got a award for Nobel Prize for literature in 1995, which the Swedish Academy noted in its press release.

Heaney was born in 1939 in Mossbawn , Country Derry, Ireland. Heaney was the oldest out of nine children; he was raised as Roman Catholic and grew up in the rural environment of his father farm. He received a Scholarship and began studying at Saint Columba’s College in North Ireland and also attended Queen’s University in Belfast. At Queen University he became familiar with a lot of forms of Irish, English, and American literature. Then Heaney began continuing poetry to university literary magazines. Upon graduating, he focus more of his career on both is writing and a career in education. Heaney first collection he published was, Death of a Naturalist in 1996; it quickly got him notices as a writer of significance.

In 1953, his family moved to bellaghy which is now the family home. His father Patrick Heamey was the eight child out of ten to James and Sarah Heaney. Seamey father was a farmer that was really commented to cattle dealing, which was shown by the...

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A very old woman that was almost close to her death. She barely makes it to the lake every day to collect water with her old gray dog by her side. Also a old cracked buckle that she puts the nasty lake water in. The next day she repeats it. That was my summary interruption of Heaney poem in my opinion.

Heaney had a critical overview in 1988; there was a critic name Elmer Andrews explores the development. In poems like “ A Drink of Water” Andrew quote “Heaney’s muse is no longer the mythological goddess of Irish history, the black mother.’ Andrew argues, the poem talks about notion faith: “Despite the poem faithlessness, the old black women still can get her a drink of water.

My thesis statement on Heaney poem “A Drink of Water” is a drink of water expresses feeling of death and sorrows through its use of diction, visual and sound.