Seamus Heaney - The Tollund Man

This is a photo montage set to Seamus Heaney's reading of "The Tollund Man."

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[aliahmed13]

Heaney is undoubtedly one of the greatest poets of our era. His deeper feelings are apparent but we need to think and dig below the surface to ascertain his true purpose. Seamu Heaney R.I.P...oh wait, hes still alive. Rocking the place down !!!

[AnotherCuppaCoffee]

The poem is about human sacrifice done in the honor of a god and sanctioned by one's tribe or nation. Like Jim Crow and lynching in the US, NI denial of Catholic rights, extreme nationalism, Nazism, etc. All forms of human sacrifice, an error as old as our divided human nature.

[MrMoshmuma]

No need for the music

[boyleb1]

i dream of having wrote this and winning the newidgate

[ndyestermorrow]

Could've done without the distracting music. The poem is music enough.

[OldwomanAsh]

I wrote on this for my final exams. I still love his poetry and his depth. I love the omnipresence of the ancient European heritage, not better nor gentler than modern life - but infinitely more personal. At least, I felt that way.

[amigaway]

Strong and beautiful parallel. Seamus Heaney's poem, which is about human sacrifice of course but also about the irish civil war and the constant violence that the poet is accustomed with (hence the ending) is already a masterpiece in and of itself that should be contrasted with the harvest bow where he shows the bounds that are created by the ancestral irish culture ! But that particular link to the black movements of the 60's, not only respects Heaney's message, but reinforces it !

[hillarychapman1]

Too bad there's this piano meandering behind this astounding poem

[GilesConradWatson]

I can't understand why this has created so much controversy. The pictures make for an interesting reading of a poem that works on several different levels: surely a fitting tribute to a superb poet, and not an insult to him? I am sure Heaney himself would appreciate the comparison between the American civil rights movement and the struggle in his own country, and you've included good pics of the Tollund Man himself. Worked for me - and what's wrong with the music, anyway?

[IgnatianMystic]

You really are a fucknbastard.

You also have no respect for poetry. Jerk.