A Study Of Poetic Phantasmagoria In Patrick Kavanagh And Seamus Heaney’s Select Poems

Abstract

The article discusses an emerging feature and aspect of two fascinating Irish poets in the twentieth century namely Patrick Kavanagh and Seamus Heaney with respect to their naturalistic poetic qualities. Both poets portrayed the rural Ireland and their home counties with absolute precision and economy of words. Whereas Kavanagh’s creative faculties rely on inspiration and intuition Heaney’s poetry explains and explores his own roots, celebrating the ancient skills and craft that sustained the farming community that nurtured him and his family for generations. Phantasmagoria has been quite predominant in modern Irish poetry and both writers have been pulled by the gravity of it in their poems. These writers are known for their simple but evocative natural imageries that they chronicled in their works.