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Field of Vision. That’s the title of a poem written by Seamus Heaney, an Irish poet who died in his prime at 74 years of age in 2013. He won a Nobel Prize for his work, taught at Oxford and Harvard, was the first of nine siblings born on a farm in Northern Ireland, Catholic . . . His production was enormous, a poet by career.
In order to illustrate the central points addressed in this paper, numerous examples from the Middle Ages to the modern world are drawn from, such as Hartmann von Aue's Der arme Heinrich (ca. 1190), Don Juan Manuel's El Conde Lucanor (1335), Bertolt Brecht's ballads, and Robert Frost's modern poetry.
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Field of Vision. Heaney’s Aunt Mary whom he adored as a youngster is the central focus of Sunlight, a lyrical vignette from his early life in Mossbawn that introduces the North collection of 1975. Field of vision recalls the increasingly limited outlook the old aunt was reduced to in her last years.
Fields of Vision Poems Published in Journals Michigan Quarterly Review , 39(2), 244 (2000); in M.A. Safir, Ed., Connecting Creations: Science-Technology-Literature-Arts , Santiago de Compostela: Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporáneo (2000).
30 lip 2014 · Introduction / Statement of Theme • In Seamus Heaney’s “Field of Vision”, a speaker observes a woman in a wheel chair staring out her window at far fields connecting the poem to larger themes of education and perception. • The poem reveals the way people look at the world influences how they feel about it and themselves.
field of vision: all you can see with eyes fixed in one position; unleafing: divesting themselves of leaves; stunted: unable to reach/ grow to normal size or develop properly;
