Death of a Naturalist: A study of Seamus Heaney?s first book of poems.

final stage of a born(p) scientist A theme of Seamus Heaneys low gear book of poems.Seamus Heaney, the famed Irish poet, was the product of two completely different social and psychological orders. Living on a small farm of some fifty acres in County Derry in Northern Ireland (Nobel eMuseum), Seamus Heaneys childhood was spent primarily in the bon ton of nature and the local wildlife. His father, a man by the name of Patrick Heaney, had a penchant for farming and working the land. Seamus mother Margaret, in contrast, was a cleaning lady born into a family called McCann, whos major dealings were with business dealings, apportion and the modern world (Nobel eMuseum). Patrick Heaney was a man of few words, and preferred the tranquility life of a farmer to the vocal world of trade and industry. Margaret Heaney was in fact quite the opposite and believed in speaking out, being comprehend and was seldom shy in expressing her feelings (Nobel eMuseum). These two extreme contrasts we re enormously prestigious in the shaping of Seamus as a man and as a poet, and his first book Death of a Naturalist is a will to this. Death of a Naturalist focuses on nature and wildlife as soundly as homophile emotions, and using poetry as his medium, Seamus Heaney shows his readers with specific propagation to love and death, the images of nature that are associated with his father, and intertwines them with the human feelings and emotions that are closely united with his mother.Love is a prominent theme in Seamus Heaneys first book of poems, and it is worthwhile noting that just one year after Heaney marry the love of his life, a woman named Mary Devlin, that Heaney wrote and released Death of a Naturalist (Nobel eMuseum). It might be confusing for one to imagine a family between the wild and natural world and a human character such as love, but Seamus Heaney manages to bring the two themes together in a deeply poetic and fitting style. In the poem double Shy, love is the governing premise. Twice Shy revolves around the idea of freshly lovers playing a game of hunter and the hunted, and with references to both nature as well as human emotions, Heaney displays the influences that were instilled in him as a juvenility man by his parents. In the second stanza, the influence is unmistakable as Heaney describes a situation in which two lovers are trying to adjust to the traditions of courting, but are consumed ... ...ons in drills. (Heaney 23). The hands aboard the drifting post are starving to death and demand to be fed by the captain, but when he refuses them food, in whines and snarls their desperation / Rose and fell alike a flock of starving gulls (Heaney 23). By describing the mens eyeball as being like spring onions and by comparing the men as being like birds, Heaney brings nature into a mix of human feeling once more, thus creating a poem where impending death can be a topic that is both animalistic as well as human and emotionally exp ressive. Within Death of a Naturalist, Seamus Heaney explores many different aspects of life in Ireland. With his constant references to both the natural world and the very different topic of human emotion, Seamus Heaney designed a book of poems that shows readers that a connection between the two can exist. Death of a Naturalist is a book that in a whole unique way bonds love, death, nature and emotion in a fashion that echoes both Patrick and Margaret Heaneys dominant character traits.Works CitedHeaney, Seamus. Death of a Naturalist. Chatham, Kent Faber and Faber Limited, 1999.Seamus Heaney Biography Nobel eMuseum. November 15, 2001.