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Poetry Analysis—TP-CASTT

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-A requiem is a Mass for the rest of the souls of the dead
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-Thus, this poem is most likely about the funerals and brutal deaths of the Irish people
who rebelled in 1798
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We are not in our kitchens or in a camp
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The priest and the tramp lay behind the ditches together
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New tactics have been discovered and implemented:
We could use the pike to cut through reins
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After that, though, we will have to retreat into the hedges
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Thousands of people died and they used scythes as cannons
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They buried the people without a blanket or a coffin
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-Heaney’s use of many monosyllabic words creates a sharp diction putting more
meaning into every word, which has a larger effect on the reader about the seriousness
and brutality which was brought along during the rebellion
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He
focuses on the specific old-fashioned weapons the rebel’s used- pike and scythes, as
well as the describing of new tactics they learned each day, such as unleashing the
cattle to distract and slow down the British soldiers
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The word “terraced”
usually means together or adjoined, which means that the thousands who died were all
united under a common concept
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Additionally, scythes are tools used for cutting crops such as
grass or wheat, with a long curved blade at the end of a long pole attached to which are
one or two short handles
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It
symbolizes the tools that the Irish people use to tend to their land
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-Heaney utilizes a relation between the first verse and the last one, because the poet
connects the relation between what they were when they were alive: country boys with
greatcoats full of barley; and what they were once they were dead, bodies in nature
with the barley growing up over their grave
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- This short poem (14 verses) is formed by one stanza
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Iambic pentameter with the rhythm
prominent
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Additionally,
the poem is so short and regular
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-Personification of the hillside: “The hillside blushed
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SHIFTS

-There are two major attitudes in this poem that are presented
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-However, though they may have similar connotation, the attitude changes much more
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Barley is very
important to the Irish people, so having it is a symbol of good luck
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-In line 3, the attitude implies their stealth, as the people are sneaking around their own
country, which suggests that they are doing something unlawful
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-In Line 5, the attitude reverts back to disappointment and mundaneness, as the
marching is portrayed as an endless, boring task
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-In Lines 7 and 8, the attitude is desperate, as the Irish people are using their common
day items to use as wartime items
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-In Line 14, the attitude is once again hopeful, as barely is growing: a symbol of hope for
the Irish people, as it is a common crop
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However, the preceding line begins with the negative tone,
which is prevalent by the dual use of the word “no
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-Shift from Line 3 to 4: However, in line 4, there is a positive connotation again, as the
priest and the tramp are intermingling together, which indicates that although they
have differences, they are united
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-Shift from Line 5 to 6: There is a sense of hope, as they are discovering new tactics
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-Shift from Line 8 to 9: In Lines 9 to 13, Heaney describes in gruesome detail, the
massacre of those Irish people who were rebelling
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THEME

-After I read the poem, I decided to do a little more research on it
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That rising was the harvest of seeds sown in 1798,
when revolutionary republican ideals and national feeling coalesced in the doctrines of
Irish republicanism and in the rebellion of 1798 itself - unsuccessful and savagely put
down
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The implication was that the seeds of
violent resistance sowed in the Year of Liberty had flowered in what Yeats called 'the
right rose tree' of 1916
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-The battle of Vinegar Hill was an engagement on 21 June 1798 between forces of the
British Crown and Irish rebels when over 10,000 British soldiers launched an attack on
Vinegar Hill
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-Thus, with this context in mind, the poem’s title is referring to the horrors and
savageness of the rebellion
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-The major theme in this poem is the relationship between the Irish and the land
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-The Irish people’s tools are mentioned in Lines 7, 8, and 11
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However, in this context, they are using it for cutting, which suggests that they
do not have access to the necessary materials needed for the rebellion
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Once again, they do not have proper wartime materials, which make the Irish people
appear a lot more innocent than if they had access to the forma weapons
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These
tools are used to cultivate the Irish land
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-The mention of Vinegar Hill shows that they care about the land at which their
downfall occurred
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By having barley in
their coat pockets, the rebellion has hope, even though it doesn’t go exactly as planned
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