Seamus Heaney and the Belfast Group: Revising on His Own

• Ashby Bland Crowder ^[1]
  1. [1] Hendrix College

     Hendrix College

     Township of Cadron, Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Estudios irlandeses = Journal of Irish Studies, ISSN-e 1699-311X, Nº. 11, 2016, págs. 184-189
• Idioma: inglés
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  • español

    Seamus Heaney solía presentar los poemas que luego incluiría en Death of a Naturalist (Muerte de un naturalista) al ‘Grupo de Belfast’. Aún así, no llevó todos los poemas de dicho volumen a las discusiones semanales del Grupo sino que utilizó versiones publicadas previamente en revistas. Este ensayo sostiene que incluso cuando Heaney hacía las revisiones por su cuenta estaba influido por los principios del Grupo y que las revisiones independientes no siempre eran exitosas. Aquí se analizan dos poemas, “The Barn” y “Ancestral Photograph”. En el primer caso, las revisiones que Heaney llevó a cabo eliminaron una repetición torpe, lograron mayor claridad, y acentuaron la emoción de miedo experimentada por el muchacho protagonista. En cambio, las revisiones que el poeta realizó por su cuenta de “Ancestral Photograph” fueron menos logradas; después de que el Grupo examinara el poema, Heaney hizo oportunas revisiones adicionales, corrigiendo todos menos uno de los fallos originale

  • English

    It was Seamus Heaney’s practice to submit poems that were to appear in Death of a Naturalist to the Belfast Group. He did not, however, bring all of them for the weekly discussions and published some just as they had appeared in the journals they were first published in. He did some revising independent of the Group, and this essay argues that when Heaney revised on his own the principles of the Group influenced his practice: he was sometimes successful in those independent revisions, sometimes not. Two poems demonstrate his practice. His revisions of “The Barn” eliminated awkward repetition, achieved clarity, and enhanced the emotion of fear experienced by the boy character. The revisions he made on his own for “Ancestral Photograph”, however, were not all successful; after the Group discussed the poem, Heaney made additional effective revisions, correcting all but one of the original missteps.