The Reworking of Irish Childhood Trope in a Selection of Poetry by Seamus Heaney and Paul Muldoon.
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As an artistic and literary trope, childhood is often romanticised as a period to be cherished and protected. To present childhood as a lived experience, artists and poets must rework the trope to match their own childhood. Inevitably influenced by the dramatic turns of political changes, Irish childhood presents the Irish poets of different generations with the challenging task of reworking literary tradition, national history, and identity.
To understand how contemporary Irish poets, Seamus Heaney and Paul Muldoon, complete such a task. This study examines a selection of their poems about childhood from a hermeneutic approach by closely reading their reworking of childhood tropes. The analysis shows that the poets mainly convey their childhood experiences of post-independent Ireland through visual imageries that foreground agricultural background and Irish rural life. Once rural images are contextualised within the history of political unrest, they reveal that a sense of disillusion that comes with childhood memory is an underlying source of inspiration for both poets.
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บทความที่ได้รับการตีพิมพ์เป็นลิขสิทธิ์ของวารสารมนุษยศาสตร์และสังคมศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยอุบลราชธานี
ข้อความที่ปรากฏในบทความแต่ละเรื่องในวารสารวิชาการเล่มนี้เป็นความคิดเห็นส่วนตัวของผู้เขียนแต่ละท่านไม่เกี่ยวข้องกับมหาวิทยาลัยอุบลราชธานี และคณาจารย์ท่านอื่นๆในมหาวิทยาลัยฯ แต่อย่างใด ความรับผิดชอบองค์ประกอบทั้งหมดของบทความแต่ละเรื่องเป็นของผู้เขียนแต่ละท่าน หากมีความผิดพลาดใดๆ ผู้เขียนแต่ละท่านจะรับผิดชอบบทความของตนเองแต่ผู้เดียว
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