An Analytical Study of Catholic Sufferings in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney

Abstract

The present paper reflects Seamus Heaney’s intense agony and sufferings of the Irishpeople in his some selected poems. The expression of agony in the form of images and symbolshas great poetic significance. Seamus Heaney’s concern and commitment are for helping andhealing the world and presenting a futuristic vision where the world is not divided by thepolitical boundaries. Heaney internalizes and universalizes the sorrows and sufferings, andmiseries and misfortunes of mankind and tries to mitigate these miseries and reduces this painthrough the ideal sphere of his poetry.