Seamus Heaney’s Prose: Preoccupying Questions

Abstract

This essay examines Seamus Heaney’s prose writings, wherein he discusses poetry as a mode of knowledge, which can explore the fractured aspects of identity and can shed light on aspects of what it mens to be human. Heaney’s own theorisations of petry are explored, specifically in terms of poetry and politics and poetry as a complicated response to difficult political and social situations, through the lens of Hans-Georg Gadamer and Emmanuel Levinas