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"The ground possessed and repossessed": The Trope of the Feminized Land in Seamus Heaney's North
Hezinová, Adéla ; Markus, Radvan (advisor) ; Theinová, Daniela (referee)
- propaganda tract "Echtra mac nEchach Muigmedóin" ("The Mugmedón"), the vision in Aodhagán Ó Rathaille's "Gile na Gile" ("The Glamoured"), and the sorrowful mother lamenting being abandoned by her children in Patrick Pearse's "Mise Éire" ("Ireland"). This thesis focuses on how t second part of the thesis focuses on Seamus Heaney's poetry collection illuminates the relationship between Heaney's poetry and the politics and history of Ireland. The aim of this thesis is to offer a new perspective on Heaney's poems by examining the parallels between the trope's form in older texts and Heaney's innovations and modifications of the trope. In three parts, Heaney's complex metaphors are analyzed: "Antaeus", "Hercules and Antaeus" and "Bone Dreams" are explored - "Come to the Bower", "Bog Queen", "Punishment", and "Kinship", which offer us the trope is its most archetypal form. The last - "Ocean's Love to Ireland", "Aisling", "Act of Union" and "The Betrothal of Cavehill". In the third part, the thesis touches upon the feminist critique of Heaney's poems, as became a focus of many critics' work, including
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