Monday, March 31, 2008
Digging
As Heaney depicts his hardworking grandfather and father through out his poem Digging, one is able to see the values that are viewed as significant in his life. One is able to see that work ethic is moral issue that the Heaney family holds to a great value. This is a very important part of Heaney's life because he uses the symbol of a spade, which is able to produce all that is needed for the family from wealth to the ability to substain life with food. As this spade is used in a symbolic way, one is able to see that a pen is the spade in Heaney's life as he wants to be able to support his family and produce children with the same ethicsaas his father has engrained with him as well as supported him in things he has done. One Ideology that many people dont think about is the fact that Heaney views his father and grandfather to a mythical stance or as heros. I would argue that Heaney in fact represents a lot of these characteristics as he presents many values that he finds creditible in his father and Grandfather.
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I would like to elaborate further on the structure of the poem. As mentioned previously by a classmate, the Rhyme scheme obviously plays a huge role in the affectivness of the poem. As I did not dive nearly as deep into the poem, it was still evident that the rhyme scheme is still relevent. In the first lines one is able to see a rhyme scheme of aa bbb, while the rest of the poem seems to have no rhyme scheme and written in free verse. I feel that this makes a statment to the moral issues raised in the poem. For instance we can that a man may only be worried about the hard work of a day in the field and not so interested in the teadious work of rhyme scheme, or the use of a pen. This Rhyme scheme allows for the reader to no fall into a rhythem and truly understand that statements that are being thoroughly made by Heaney.
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