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Joseph Harley
SH was fascinated by bogs, I suppose the most obvious work he did with the pen/spade here, was his descriptions of the human sacrifices found in the bogs in Europe
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Maria Heart
Hugh Grant?!!! 😳
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Richard Leighton
My brother in law grew up on a potato farm in the 50s and 60s here in Canada Just cutting the thousands of seed potatoes to plant was horrific
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Mj Odwyer
Bill lonergan
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abidha se
This explanation of the poem was very helpful Thanks for this wonderful explanation
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Crazy Duck
As i've said before, i much enjoy the way you dissect poems I liked this not just because I just bought Heany's 100 poems book I think you might just enjoy dissecting a poem I wrote recently Can i find your uni email and send it I am not a Nobel poet, but I am an Australian published poet How about it?
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Crazy Duck
seamus is a poet of the people
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Daniel Scott
Thanks, this was brilliant!
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Cecilia Fernandez
Brilliant analysis 👏👏👏👏
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Hanna Mäkelä
Addictive lectures! Thank you! for the series! :)
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Jimmy Gallagher
I’m a very late in life coming to the beauty of poetry Just love Dr Bakers analysis of all poems I could listen for hours on end I know the whole beauty of poetry is that it speaks to people and can be interpreted countless ways For me “The coarse boot nestled on the lug” could be a reaction to the coarse language used by his frustrated father whilst digging that he instantly recognised as it nestled on his lug (ear) something he heard for the first time 20 years ago Which made him get up and look out the window in the first place Poetry is just wonderful
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Infinita Fenix
Brilliant job, it's a pleasure to listen to you
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Mgenth bjpafa
Searching for one of "esoteric" poems from Seamus, here I arrive at apparent simplicity of a declaration of intent and more
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Guga Schultze
Wow! (again)
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mycroftlectures
Literature on Children 2021 "The final four words of Digging show the poet as an adult with an adult's focus" Consider Digging as a coming of age poem"
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Joseph Harley
My old impression of the line Bends low comes up twenty years away Was Heaney transcending time Regarding the soil not the father I was thinking along the lines of soil ageing not his father I thought this because Heaney was fascinated by bog bodies etc Now I think that line was simply a reference to his father as 20 years younger
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Joseph Harley
I am not developed enough in literature to add to your fantastic analysis But one massive question Why oh why are so few people following these lectures? If Kim kardashian tweets her newest handbag it gets 20 billion hits Holy god
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Noah Hansen
Wow
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mycroftlectures
Text and Experience 2020 Metaphor and Simile
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Realhuntedmusic
Thank you Dr Barker for introducing me to this wonderful poem and your superb analysis, this really resonated with me as someone who was raised by a hard-working parent and a certain amount of guilt one carries whilst pursuing a career in the arts and you feel, well at least I do that I need to prove myself by having a certain work ethic, perhaps it has to do with the masculine pride that admires and is partly envious of the physical robustness of certain professions🤔 PS I would love to see you return to these longer detailed analysis of works of poetry and perhaps even the occasional song lyrics dissected 😌🙏🏼
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Pranayesh Nosipuri
*Old man - Patrick Heaney (Seamus's Father)br*His old man- James Heaney (Patrick's father)br*Living roots - their family's profession ie digging
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Orion Bright
Man looks like Todd Howard
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mycroftlectures
Lifewriting 2020 Analepsis and Prolepsis
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Kalvin Grant
Legend
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Thomas Simmons
Wowgood work By God this bloke can handle a Heaney Piece!
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Toukir Ahmed
This is an extraordinary analysis of this poem Thank you very much
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RebelRevo
Owww okay tysm ,i will dig with it sir Andrew Barker! 😉❤️✨
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Risha kakati
Please upload more videos Love it
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Giuseppe Cantamessa
Beautiful
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mycroftlectures
2019 Childhood's End
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Wan Ting
Thank you soooooo much!! These videos actually helps me a lot in the exam!!!!
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Raghav Indra
What is Toner's bog??? You forgot to describe it Can anyone help me?
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Karen Carswell
Firmly, not gently
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Karen Carswell
If you think you are qualified to analyse Heaney's work, at least read it right Three times you read a word wrong
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Jean Pickard
I enjoyed listening to your lecture and appreciate your additional information about the "snug as a gun" simile here in the comments section
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minu sen
My eleven year old granddaughter had to study Blackberry Picking and I turned to Google for help as I had never read Seamus Heaney beforeAnd Lo and behold came across these lectures and I am hooked So absorbing and so many layers unfolding in a very intimate telling Thank you Dr Andrew for bringing the enchantment of poetry back into my life
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PlanetGaming
Great Work
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JM
great video!
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Poddo nila 2018
thanksit's so good
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Han Chun He
When first reading ‘Digging’, I think the language is too simple and blunt However, after watching the poetry analysis by Dr Andrew Barker, I start to love this fantastic poem In the analysis, I am really interested in the definition of ‘seeing things’ brbrIn the analysis, it is said that noticing things can be defined as either noticing things that other people don’t notice or noticing things aren’t there and I totally agree that Seamus Heaney has the ability to notice things that other people don’t notice In my opinion, as for this poem, the poet actually notices two kinds of things; one of them is concrete while the other one is more abstract The first thing, just as mentioned in this video, is the ‘bright edge’ of the spade, which can show that the poet’s father is very professional and hard working The second thing is the ‘prowess at manual labour’ of his father and grandfather because after knowing about the specific social context at that time, we can find that the educated children may feel disconnected with their families in many cases, but Seamus Heaney sees the ‘prowess at manual labour’ of his father and grandfather, which is unnoticed by others Furthermore, it also makes him realize that the spade is the tool of the trade of his family, in the same way; the pen is the tool of his own trade Although they seem totally different, the spirit of digging further can be passed on from generation to generation and in terms of Seamus Heaney’s poem writing, it means to think deeper thoughts to get deeper poems, which is very crucial for his future creationbrbrIn addition, I think it is also a rite of passage for the poet Perhaps when he was a little child, he couldn’t understand the ‘prowess at manual labour’, and even wanted to escape from his family and this kind of life However, as time goes by, he starts to see it positively because he gradually realizes that working hard is the capability that he also needs in his poem writing and ‘there is an inheritance there for me’ as mentioned in this videobrbrAlthough this poem seems like a narrative diary at the first sight, it is very profound and meaningfulbr(ENG3379-1 He Han Chun, Lucy 4072336)
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mycroftlectures
Rite of Passage
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Souvik Biswas
Do you think there are phallic symbols in the poem?
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Saimon A
Thank you very much You really helped me to get a good marks in my final exam
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Michael Weinstein
My first encounter with MyCroft Very enjoyable and enlightening Early in the video you referred not only to Marxian but also to Freudian implications in the poem I assume you were referring to pen, gun, shaft,etc Is it right to assume that Heaney is alluding to the virile, life-creating force and energy that is the creation of art, and of poetry specifically? This seems to be a "man's poem" Thanks
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Christopher Jordan
I don't even need this for homework I just love listening to this guy talk about poetry
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Lisa
Fantastic poem Also, another allusion made to the 'Troubles' - there is a NI expression that infers allegiance to one faction or the other depending on which foot one uses to dig with a spade ( wwwtheguardiancom/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-1121,00html) I sense a tension here - what foot is his father digging with?
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Duncan Reith
Completely agree with this excellent lecture I would just add one thing It seems to me there is a movement from the gun to the spade, just as there is a movement from 'looking down' on his father/ancestors to the deep respect for them that his thought process expresses through the poem It is as if he recognises that the only way he can have the impact that he seeks with his poetry is by coming at it from an attitude of great respect and through a search for deep understanding
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Vishal Nanda
I really dug this
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Houzaïmati Ali Soilihi
We studied this poem in class this year but i couldn't understand much as our teacher has explained it in a very complicated way glad i found your video, love your analysis, thank you so much
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Shavinda Dissanayake
An excellent review
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Ellen Wright
I wish you would put up more videos I really enjoy your views on literature
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Aditya Gupta
can u please analyse more of heaney's poems from the same collection please
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Aditya Gupta
can u please comment on the rhyme-scheme and punctuation
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crow needs no shadow
wowbryour video is really useful it helps me to understand "digging" morebri would write thay analysis in my thesis
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Minty Mint
Isn't 'snug as a gun' referring to the troubles in Ireland?
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T Z
What a fantastic line by line analysis of Digging Thank you Although the poem may seem simple enough and centered around re-visiting family tradition and heritage, what struck me the most in my own interpretation of Heaney’s words is the bringing about of potential loss of connection with the land that progress too often brings about I get a sense of this disconnect first and foremost through Heaney's physical location in the poem - in shelter, not on Land, looking down This brings me to question, might he not only be nostalgic about what men his father and grandfather were but, also about how land was once what he touched, connected to, understood and loved (“To scatter the new potatoes that we picked/Loving their cool hardness in our hands”)? Might he be looking at socio-economic progress through his own critical lens of longing for loss of that connection, the love for the land? That even though the thing that Heaney is now holding in his hand “snug as a gun” is a squat pen, he still aims to do his family justice through the continuation of hard work but, also foreshadows that he will not forget what has made the transformation from spade to squat pen possible – the Land and our indebtedness to it
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米迦Micah
The concept of digging that Seamus Heaney portrays in this poetry is exactly what I think writing is like The metaphors in this poem are easy to understand because it is vivid But I'm not sure that whether "snug as a gun" means that things that he writes with his pen would just be bullets This idea is just simple but uniquebrbrMoreover, Heaney seems to appreciate what his family gives him and loves to recollect those memories which is with his family It's quite different than most of the poets because as I know Parents is a theme that poets would always portray in poem as a blockage of their life So it's quite outstanding when Heaney talks about a new way to be like his ancestors
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Pui Kin Iu
To me, this poem is about praising his ancestors' digging profession with vivid description during the digging process The feeling is most the time positive, because he is glad that he could look up onto their ancestors and learn from them the diligence in digging He also uses metaphors to reveal that he is going to pass on this tradition and positive characteristic to his next generation by using his pen to contribute to the literary field However, I could feel a slightly regret in Heaney that he could not follow this practice of digging It seems like he is the one who cuts of the link between his family bloodline For me, I think he is not blaming himself of being a literate worker instead of a physical labor He admits directly that he is going to use a pen instead of a spade However, still there is a little regret for him that his strongest ability or interest is not in digging Therefore, here is the one little sad moment behind the praising positive feeling created in the poem But all in all, he is quite positive to his literary gift since he expresses in the poem he wants to contribute and try his best in his field, like what the ancestors did
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Joyce W
I like his idea of linking the family job of digging with his aim of being a good writer I agree with you that 'snug' here might mean that the pen is lying safely on his hand, like people who hold their guns as a means of protection or attacking On the other hand he might be describing the way he holds the pen or the way he turns the pen, forming the shape of his hand and fingers to look like a gunbrI wonder if it was the case in the past or was it just the case for his family, that he didn't describe how his family had trained him as a professional manual labour, didn't teach him how to use the spade I think it's probably that his family has never asked him to inherit their job, because he has the chance to be well-educated
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Winnie Yau
I appreciate the details in the poems I like how he has experienced digging potatoes and has the experience of being in his family's shoes That's how he can achieve greatness in poetry He sees their intellectual disconnection differently But he also dims a point that there are other people who are experiencing the same thing but they might see their family differently There is closure in this poem because it is comforting to know that two classes could blend well together in the ending brbrCould you please talk more about the last point in your lecture?
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liliamli
I think Digging is a simple piece of writing I really enjoy reading the last part of this poem Heaney does not have a spade like his father or grandfather, but he has a pen, and he will dig with it To me this is a fantastic piece of writing that Heaney compares the jobs that different generations do, but as long as we go down deep to it, work hard on it, we can be successful and be professional
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Venus Chan
Digging, to me, is a simple but beautiful poem that celebrates Heaney’s family heritage – the contributions that the previous generations had made to the family and by extension society - on one hand; and a self-reflexive poem that examine the significance of his poems, of poetry, and of literature to society on the other brbrIn the poem Heaney addresses his father and grandfather lovingly as ‘the old man’ and narrates how both of them had worked very hard as farmers – his father dug diligently everyday to the extent that the edge of his spade had turned ‘bright’ whereas his grandfather ‘cut more turf in a day/ Than any other man on Toner’s bog’ - just to support the family Their hard work and sacrifices have inspired Heaney to take up a spade of his own as a poet– his pen – and dig: dig deep into the family history, and also the possible contributions he could make to society brbrThis critical examination of his role as a poet to society can be evidenced, I think, by his describing his pen ‘as a gun,’ which can be useful or lethal In his time, society has transformed from one of agricultural based to one of knowledge- based He no longer needs to do manual labour – to dig potatoes and peat - to earn a living; instead, he’s given a pen to write And the last line of the poem that comes after all the praises he gives to ‘the old men’ – ‘I’ll dig with it’ – sounds very much like a resolution: that he’s determined to work diligently like the old Heaneys for the good of the family’s name and also of society brbrDigging reminds me of the ‘Always on the side of the egg’ speech that Murakami gave in a prize giving ceremony, in which he questions his role as a novelist – ‘a professional spinner of lies’ – and the value of his work According to Murakami, novelists spread values to the world through their literary works; and so it’s important for them – ‘one of the novelist's most important duties’ – to make judgments about right and wrong in their works And I think Heaney’s Digging is also about the same thing – to use his ‘pen’ that is ‘snug as a gun’ carefully and wisely and bring good to the world brbrbrMost of us are not professional and renowned writers like Heaney and Murakami, but I think their words still have some relevance to us Digging is written in the 60s, when the Internet was less popular than it is now And nowadays there are lots of the so-called ‘keyboard fighters’ who have little, if any regard to people’s feelings and take malicious pleasure in attacking other people online And I think this poem has reminded us the power of our words and its potential danger if not used with care
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YUNG MS
As a matter of fact, digging does require skills and tools To be more exact, one might need a spade or shovel to carry out the work of digging As for the persona in the poem, his pen is the only tool he has In the poem, it shows the speaker’s willingness and inclination to use his pen to dig some deeper things and to present all those deeper thoughts with the use of his pen At the first, the speaker was uncertain that whether his pen can be as great and powerful as the spades of his father and grandfather But, in the end of the poem, I might feel that the speaker has made up his mind to dig with his pen Back to first stanza, it quite like the poet’s use of simile – ‘The squat pen rests: snug as a gun” It reminds me the old saying: ‘the pen is mightier than the sword’ For me, I think sometimes the use of pen is more powerful than the weapon just like guns When the persona has dig sometime deep, it can alter the reader’s thoughts and beliefs and even it can change the world In this sense, I think the speaker’s use of pen can indeed as great as the spades of his father Last, I quite appreciate the poet’s skills of ‘seeing thing’ – that is noticing things that other people don’t notice In fact, most of us would not regard digging as a talent or skill but in in this poem it did He has showed respect for the skills and works his father and grandfather have achieved
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bonnie
The way the pen replaces the spade and becomes the poet’s or the persona's tool is significant in this poem His father’s and grandfather’s inheritance enables him to reach his mental depths, where the past activity of digging connects and continues with his present In the poem, we are presented with different working styles, one is more physical and the other more knowledge based, and it seems that one is reflecting another Nevertheless, the spade, the gun and the pen place the importance on the agents, without an agent the tools will only rest, it is the effort of men that digs, transcends their best qualities
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hoi yan Chan
I think the line “But I’ve no spade to follow them” indicates the end of the working class generation and the tradition of his family will stop and he can only reminisce from his memory His family understands the change of economic situation of the society and stop passing the tradition of being a professional worker to Heaney He acknowledges the attitude of being professional and hard working as a tradition of his family Even though it is impossible to live with digging anymore, he decided that the spirit and tradition has to be continued with his career as a poet brComparing the first stanza and the last, I can see he has both quality of being professional and spirit of working class which he wants to inherit from his family The first stanza, “The squat pen rests: snug as a gun” indicates he know he has the talent to master words and write good poems, as professional as his father and grandfather In the last stanza, it is not only the professional talent that he has that matters, he is making a promise that he will carry on the spirit of his family tradition by saying “I’ll dig with it”
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Alex Tang
For me, this poem is as simple as it can be but the feelings behind was something very unique It is amazing that a poet could turn something so simple and related it back to ideas about his heritage, his jobs and his relationship with his father and grandfather I like the similie The squat pen rests: snug as a gun" I think it does take into account about the pen is mightier than the sword When we think of gun, I think of something loud It is as if he was going to write something "loud" (do something to present himself) with his "gun" penbrbrMoreover, for me, the only present was the first stanza and the last stanza He is thinking about something to write in his poems So the pen rests there in the begining He is thinking about the time when he was young that he saw his father working under his windw, digging The entire poem was about him remembering his younger days to find something worthy to write So when he finished remembering, he will dig with these ideas and write with it So he will dig with it in the final stanzabrbrI do think he likes his heritage of his father working in hard labor It is something he wants to keep as his heritage He wants to keep digging with his pen to write something meaningfulbrbrI also want to know more about metafictive I searched the net aout it "Metafiction- It poses questions about the relationship between fiction and reality, usually using irony and self-reflection" Can there be irony in this poem as well as self-reflection?
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Wailing Law
It is clear that Heaney feels confident that he is very skilled with a pen and demonstrates and proves that he is an accomplished poet by writing this very thought provoking poemHeaney realizes that in choosing 'the squat pen' over 'the spade' he is in fact 'digging' up memories of his ancestors, and thus enabling the process of the historical past giving meaning to the present So all in all, he draws the conclusion that whilst we must not forget our roots,we must pursue our own passions and dreams in life For Heaney, it is his chosen calling as a writer in which he finds solace, which enables him to transfer memories onto paper, giving old thoughts the power to transcend time
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lam vivian
the poem used a lot of simile and I find it interesting of how he compared his pen and the gravel One is a gun and the other is a spade In a way, there's the implication of how the newer generation has evolved on how to help the family/nation's life in a way First you have the spade, an older weapon, that helps feed the family, which leads to the growth of their children, and they helped them grow intellectually till they no longer have spade but gun Although both are different, Heaney used the word "digging" to connect the two as the common purpose, which is to plant and let things grow, in this case, maybe the next generation
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Hannah Bae
This poem is really vivid and descriptive one that makes it possible for readers to fully imagine and follow what Seamus is showing The lecturer explained about 'twenty years away' as the memory when his father was 20 years younger and when it was much easier for him to stoop in rhythm For me, it sounds like the poet looking back his memory when his dad was alive Rasping sound of something reminds him of his father digging with spade when he was alive and through his memory or remembrance of his family, he continues the poem Throughout the poem, even if there's some kind of different 'class' system of Marxism among his family, the poet is not showing off his higher, educated class but revealing his pride or almost his awe towards his family brThe beginning and the end of the poem have the same lines of 'Between my finger and my thumb the squat pen rests' In the first stanza, the squat pen which is 'snug as a gun' rests in the poet's hand For me it's quite weird to use a simile with pen and gun but I can somehow see the difference when I compare the first stanza and the last stanza Pen and gun are both useful when they have certain aim At first, the poet seems uncertain even if he knows that he is educated and he has to do something with pen because he's probably good at writing during his education However, after recalling his childhood memory and his family's dignity as manual laborers, he ends with 'I'll dig with it' Even if he cannot do the same digging what his ancestors did, he decides his aim of writing, unearthing and going down and down for his family's tradition and dignity
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Ros
Thank you so much Mr Barker, i am a student of literature from India, i have followed your videos well, they are really good My last duchess was also brilliantly explained, big thumb's up
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Mulder Starling
Thanks a lot for this Someone further down in the comments said that this lecture helped them "see things" - the same is definitely true with me
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Alia Aifa
Thanks! It really helpful
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mycroftlectures
On “snug as a gun” The analysis of this simile here is somewhat incomplete and is improvable for sure For those who like this sort of thing, we can perhaps see the pen, at the start of the poem, as a tool that will assassinate or at least “end” Heaney’s link with his father’s way of making a living and his own past At the start of the poem Heaney knows that his pen has that potential Incorporating that reading into the poem, which is omitted from the lecture, helps it read as not just a dawning awareness of the usable influence of roots, but as move from a more violent negativity to positivity about that influence Imagining the gun as a potential weapon against the past that gets transformed during the duration of the poem into a tool to investigate the past is a worthwhile addition and, for me, definite improvement on how I present it here At the end the pen is no longer a comfortable potential weapon against the family's influence but a tool for unearthing itbrI’d perhaps argue against how “comfortable” the pen should feel at the start of the poem Would Heaney, or the persona of the poem if we must, ever have been 'comfortable' about violently ending his relationship with the past? I don’t think so, but this is a minor quibble? Having said that if Heaney changes it from “snug” as a gun, to something less comfortable he loses the near palindrome in the line, and the palindrome is too much fun to wish awaybrHope that helpsbrAndrew Barker
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Politoedrg
Great work on the full analysis of the poem I find it very helpful for my english literature gcse preparation Thank you :) But I can't stop laughing at all the 'unmeant' euphemisms xD
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Ruth Writes
Poetry often takes small moments, things that are insignificant in every day life and shines a light on them, brings back the moment to the reader in vivid colour, let's the reader pine for the image as it gifts it to them in the written/spoken word
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Ruth Writes
I miss Seamus Heaney's wonderful voice, it brought his poems to life  Not that you don't read his poem well, you do and I can catch every word as I'm familiar with your accent and these days my ears don't work as well as they did, but the tone of voice isn't his, that rich, lilting tone of the Irish, the intonation Maybe I was a little in love? He catches the mood like no other   so sad he's gone
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wisacq
Beautifully described a beautiful poem As the spade goes "down and down", you've given a detailed picture of the poem with every layer of it brought up and shining I could clearly see the image the poem makes Thank you Subscribed, going through your other lectures, and looking out for more
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amritha ponna
a billion thanks, absolute savior!!!  it is after watching this video, i got the poem completely !! u must do punishment as well :)
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Diego Santiago
I love what you're doing, but I feel like this stalls so much I may not be your target audience, but by God (This means wow in case you didn't know), you explain the most obvious things and pause so much I apologize for the rudeness, but I felt a good chunk of this was stalling and repeating yourself getting nowhere for a minute
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Derek Hanlon
oh yes, Punishment  I love that  I had do do a comparison with that at Plath's lady lazarus as an undergraduate  That's when I started to love poetry  A lecture on Punishment would be interesting  Its a great thing you are doing here  
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Derek Hanlon
fabulous  
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Ashley Fulbright
This is life saving THANK YOU
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Albert Douglass
Really appreciate you doing this Great stuff Many thanks,
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Melissa
You should do Punishment!
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noillucS 33
Seamus was an artist I was so happy to have known him He knew us God bless you, Seamus I will never forgetyou
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Hunter Smith
Thank you so much Dr Andrew Baker! Your analysis of this poem was extremely helpful for my interpretation of poetry class
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Farin N
Andrew, many thanks for the great job!brYou're a wonderful lecturer, not boring at all; really enjoyed it I'm a fan now
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Mervyn Cooke
Andrew great analysis of one of my favourites
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