http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/seamus-heaney Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Wed, 08 Jul 2026 10:21:51 -0400 Wed, 08 Jul 2026 10:21:51 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1744/learning-to-love-the-absolute-other-in-the-poetry-of-seamus-heaney-and-michael-longley By Madeleine A. Gallo - Innocent lamb, savage tiger, free-flying eagle – time after time animals interrupt poetry as the ideal, the muse, the hero, or the grotesque operating alongside humanity. In tracking animal imagery throughout contemporary Irish poetry, we may run the risk of imposing a perhaps unfair anthropocentric epistemology onto these poets. Although at times poets like Seamus Heaney or Michael Longley endeavor to convert animals into something more humanlike, or something that exists merely at the mercy of mankind, what lies beneath this original uneasiness is anguish over the fact that they as men... Tue, 30 Oct 2018 09:11 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1744/learning-to-love-the-absolute-other-in-the-poetry-of-seamus-heaney-and-michael-longley http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1733/the-poetics-of-witnessing-in-the-works-of-seamus-heaney By Dipsikha Thakur - In his poem ‘Punishment’ from the poetry collection North (1975), Seamus Heaney picks up the voice of a witness who is suspended between the possibilities of love, silence, voyeurism, outrage and above all, the understanding of the process of violence that brings the ‘numbered bones’ of the corpse it describes to its present state. While it would no doubt be too obvious a strategy to read Heaney’s personal voice in that of the speaker of this poem, there are nonetheless resonances in this state of paralysis between mutually irreconcilable positions that brings to... Thu, 22 Mar 2018 04:25 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1733/the-poetics-of-witnessing-in-the-works-of-seamus-heaney