![]() Additional key questions include the idea of what certain critics reference as a "moral" or "public duty" of poetry - the constraints these critics attempt to place on art - and the ways in which Heaney addresses this idea of "duty" the confrontation of the political within Heaney's poetics whether through an image of pre-Christian mythic violence or a "reproduction of ethnicity" through a remapping of territories, a re-appropriation of territory through language and whether or not this project of re-appropriation might create a new kind of violence - a re-claiming of territory or history through words instead of physical violence and the question as to whether or not words can lead to violence and finally, work towards the creation of a "new," an alternate space Heaney attempts to make through the power of his art. ![]() Heaney comes from a necessarily hybrid position, a place of "in-betweenness," and this hybrid space creates a tension in his work which is both distinctly his and reflective of the historical Irish space in which he lives and creates - that space that exists between poet and man, between North and South and between Ireland and England. This paper focuses on the idea of "in-between-ness" and the ways in which Heaney works against determined positions and the limits boundaries attempt to put on creative work. ![]()
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