"Station Island"

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This paper examines "Station Island" by the Irish poet Seamus Heaney, It looks at how Heaney is also a spiritual writer, and his "Station Island" is a deeply spiritual work that tries to portray the spiritual hunger often felt by the people in this modern and technological world and how the title, "Station Island", itself has a association with spirituality and pilgrimage. It analyzes how Heaney uses many poetic devices throughout his writing to good affect and how it helps the reader to imagine the feelings and actions of Heaney that are going on in his mind. The words Heaney uses enrich the poetry; he uses much onomatopoeia to create atmosphere in his writing.

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"The third part of "Station Island" is a series of monologues on the voice of Sweeney a mysterious and scary figure from Heaney's childhood, the poems in the third part are dramatic and Heaney creates images from the past to tell the story of religious confusion. Sweeney was also a character in previous Heaney poems and in "Sweeney Returns" Heaney depicts the return of the mysterious figure with an altered tone, this time the tone of Sweeney is more political than religious. "On the Road" is the last poem which concludes the book and states that "all roads are one." The voices of Sweeney-Heaney merge, as the religious and aesthetic quests join in the volume of final words [O'Connell, 1985]."

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