Write a brief critical analysis of “Thatcher”, isolating som

In the first stanza, Heaney describes the thatcher getting ready to

Typical of Heaney’s early poetry is the simplicity in his style of writing. He talks a lot about plain things such as the soil, referring to ‘sods’ in “Digging” and “Follower”. I think this is because taken to a different level, he imagines poetry as something that you dig in for in your brain and once found the seed springs into growth, just as it would in the soil. Heaney describes this process of inventing poetry in other poems such as “The Peninsula” and “Follower”. He uses everyday mundane tasks to describe the art of writing poetry, as in “Follower”. The simple language and reference to everyday life carry more subtle, ambiguous messages to show what revelations are possible through careful exploration of words. Reference to Greek mythology is also found in “Personal Helicon” when he refers to ‘Narcissus’ (l. 18).

The fourth stanza of

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