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Requiem for the Croppies - Research Paper

Requiem for the Croppies

Heaney expresses an awareness of irony by invoking another meaning for “Requiem.” It is the term used by Catholics to refer to a mass celebrated for the repose of the dead and a word with which the Irish would be quite familiar. The poet understands that there will be no repose, no rest for the spirit of rebellion. The torch will be passed in songs, in the pub, and in the inflammatory works of native writers. And there will be no rest for the bulk of the Irish people, who must pick up the pieces of their rebel children.

The poem’s second line reproduces the public’s reluctance to become involved in situations of physical force. “No kitchens on the run” is at once an explanation for the ...

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of the soldier, for whom there is “no striking camp,” Heaney crafts a pun on the work “striking.” Implying that rebel encampments are visually inconspicuous on an uninterrupted Irish landscape, this line illustrates the force of a uniformly held political perspective, a force that impresses itself upon the tangible ...

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PAPER DETAILS

Added: 5/9/2013 05:36:22 AM
Submitted By: sm1234
Category: Poetry & Poets
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 258
Pages: 1

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