The Anti-Pastoral in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney: A Hermeneutical Approach

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Hermeneutics as a research practice involves reappraisal and
reinterpretation in relation to its cultural contexts. This article addresses
these issues upon launching a study of Heaney’s early poetry specially
his first major volume of poetry, Death of a Naturalist (1966). The
present paper focuses on the themes of fear, decay and death in the
poetry of Seamus Heaney exposed through a hermeneutical approach
practiced through Derrida’s deconstruction as method.

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