Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1-, University of Wuppertal, language: English, abstract: In this work I will analyse six poems, all of them are from the same poet unless the last one, which will later be useful as a comparison between one of the poems. After analysing them in detail, I will focus myself on three topics and will try to find similarities within the analysed poems. However, to be able to understand the backgrounds of each poem, I will start with a little biography from Seamus Heaney, who is responsible (the author from) for the major poems that I will analyse.