La búsqueda de identidad a través del lenguaje poético de Seamus Heaney.

Abstract

Heaney’s sense of literary identity is inextricably bound up with his family ancestry of agricultural labour, his Catholic upbringing, and his cultural history. Since his early poetry Heaney dramatises his crisis of identity, expressing an empathy for the familial and the agrarian themes, while focusing on the development of his poetic consciousness. Seamus Heaney has always been attracted by the metaphorical possibilities of the rural world –a pile of granary sacs is transformed into great bland rats, some frogs into mud grenades- and by the aura which surrounds the solitary places which in Celtic mythology is represented by wells and rivers, converted into a transfer of gables and sky. In Preoccupations he explains his attraction by the telluric images and by the essence of the self, as source for intuitive, irrational instincts, as he affirms in "Personal Helicon". That is what he writes about in his poems, despite it is beneath all adult dignity.