ISSN : 1226-4946(Print)
ISSN : 2288-5412(Online)
ISSN : 2288-5412(Online)
The Yeats Journal of Korea Vol.27 pp.131-153
DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.14354/yjk.2007.27.131
DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.14354/yjk.2007.27.131
Absence or Nothingness in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney
Abstract
At the outset of his poetic career Seamus Heaney sought his identity throughhis own digging into his roots in Irish history and culture. He struggled to come toterms with the violent and coarse surfaces of life and his poetic works representedthe identity of the subject in the knowing of objects. But the works in The HawLantern and Seeing Things deal with the invisibles or absence with firmer views. Acentral aim of Heaney's work before these works seems to turn the visible into theinvisible. But an absence catches the poet's interests more than the politics inNorthern Ireland in his works after the 1980s: his aim is now to make the absentrealm or the invisible present and visible by the ordinary expressions. Thus theabsence or nothingness expands its meaning beyond itself towards the source of thepoet's second thought and the source of the poetic revelation. And some of hisworks explore the equality of being between the material and the immaterial,between the invisible inner motions and the visible outer world. He gives lights onabsences that exist in past or in this phenomenal world. Certain phenomenal objects,if a poet really sees them and apprehends their potentiality, serve as stations to anotherwise inaccessible underworld of nothingness or absent world. By discoveringthe meaning of absent being one can understand that of the present and replace orresurrect the absent being. It is an act of deterritorialization of his poetic works andtowards the freedom as a poet.
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