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# Door into the Dark: Poems

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### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Seamus Heaney's Door into the Dark
  

*by J***K on Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2000*

Seamus Heaney's collection of poems entitled Door into the Dark was originally published in 1969. Heaney is a Nobel laureate and it shows in this volume of poetry. Many of these poems focus on Heaney's native country  of Ireland, the landscape, the rural people, the bloodshed.  Sometimes  Heaney takes you off the face of the planet and into a new realm. In the  poem "The Penninsula," he gives the reader a sense of being on a  narrow, tenuous stretch of land that seems uninhabited by humans:The  sky is tall as over a runway,/ The land without marks so you will not  arrive/But pass through, though always skirting landfall./ At dusk,  horizons drink down sea and hill,/ The ploughed field swallows the  whitewashed gable/ And you're in the dark again.  Many of the poems  in this volume focus on rural people and the work they do, including a  thatcher and a farm wife. As in other work of his, Heaney uses onomatopoeia  with energy and exactness. He often forgoes traditional rhyme, but uses  internal rhyme which contributes to the rhythm of the poem. Here are lines  from "Thatcher" to illustrate my point: "He eyed the old  rigging, poked at the eaves,/ Opened and handled sheaves of lashed  wheat-straw."  One of the fiercest poems in the collection is  "Requiem for the Croppies." An Oxford English Dictionary is an  important resource. I discovered that Croppies were Irish rebels who, in  1798, cropped their hair very short to show their alliance with the French  Revolution. The sonnet seems to be a favorite form of Heaney; he uses it to  describe the slaughter of the Irish rebels by English forces: ...on  Vinegar Hill, the fatal conclave./ Terraced thousands died, shaking scythes  at canon./ The hillside blushed, soaked in our broken wave./ They buried us  without shroud or coffin/ And in August the barley grew up out of the  grave.  I recommend keeping a dictionary nearby when you read any  poetry and certainly when you read Heaney's work. You may want to look up  words such as couchant, thatcher, tarn, and bespoke. A reader of poetry  knows that every word of every poem is essential in appreciating and  understanding the total meaning.  Heaney's poetry is intense,  challenging, and definitely worthwhile. I recommend any/all of his books.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    "The barley grew up out of the grave."
  

*by R***N on Reviewed in the United States on July 15, 2016*

DOOR INTO THE DARK (1969) is Seamus Heaney's second book of poems.  As with the first, "Death of a Naturalist", many of the poems have as their subject the rural life.  For example:  a forge and the blacksmith, stables, breeding a cow to a bull, a thatcher, a frozen outdoor water pump, and threshing.  Some deal with fishing and eeling, notably the beguiling seven-poem "A Lough Neagh Sequence".  A few deal with Ireland and one, my favorite, with Irish history.  That is "Requiem for the Croppies", which I here set out:The pockets of our greatcoats full of barley --No kitchens on the run, no striking camp --We moved quick and sudden in our own country.The priest lay behind ditches with the tramp.A people, hardly marching -- on the hike --We found new tactics happening each day:We'd cut through reins and rider with the pikeAnd stampede cattle into infantry,Then retreat through hedges where cavalry must be thrown.Until, on Vinegar Hill, the fatal conclave.Terraced thousands died, shaking scythes at cannon.The hillside blushed, soaked in our broken wave.They buried us without shroud or coffinAnd in August the barley grew up out of the grave.Though of the thirty-four poems, there is only one other sonnet, most of the poems are formal and many employ rhyme.  That is one reason I take to Heaney.  Another is that he writes about people and human activity (rather than abstractions or metaphysics), and hence his poems are easily understood.

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    Great
  

*by T***P on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 30, 2016*

I love everything about Seamus Heaney apart from the fact that he know longer walks this planet in the same form.

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