#ReadIreland 2020 Station Island (67 poems)
- Author: Seamus Heaney
- Title: Station Island
- Published: 1984
- Dedicated to: Irish playwright Brian Friel
- List of Challenges 2020
- Monthly plan
- #ReadingIrelandMonth20
- #Begorrathon20
Conclusion:
- Station Island is an intensebook of 67 poems
- …each one worth you reading time.
- The poems left me breathless.
- It took me 2 days to read 123 pages!!
- Reading Seamus Heaney’s poetry is only
- known by experience…rather than reason.
- Favorite poem: Station Island nr XII
- Seamus meets his last guide on the pilgrimage
- …James. Joyce.
- Joyce’s advice is timeless
- …not only meant for Heaney…but for us all:
- “Let go, let fly. forget.
You’ve listened long enough.
Now strike your note.” - Joyce urges the complete opposite of the
- collective Catholic pilgrimage (Station Island)
- …but favors individualism!
- In other words
- ….shed your Catholic orthodoxy and reveal a new self.
- #ChapeauAuBas
- ….Seamus Heaney!
- #MustRead
Strike Your Note – words to live by!
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Also in Station Island XII I was inspired by the words
I can use when I get into a ‘blogging/writing dip’:
“So get back in harness.
The main thing is to write for the joy of it.
Cultivate a work-lust that imagines its haven
…like your hands at night….”
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Isn’t that wonderful? I always find Heaney’s words SO inspiring.
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Seamus Heaney
…goosebumps when I read some of his
insights….just a genius writer!
Erin Go Bragh!
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