Things I noticed:
nature theme
> several mentions of grasses and shrubs
detailed imagery
compares a woman to a tree/tree to woman and then calls 'her' a wounded dryad
vaccination mark is a wound, sometimes people get bruises
umber is the name of a brownish color
veins in the had look similar to veins in leaves because they do criss-cross
Connections:
"the gatehouse at the crossing" and "the train that comes between us"
has an air of loneliness similar to The Guttural Muse
nature theme like many of his other poems
dryads are nymphs that live in forests more specifically trees
Pequod is the ship from Moby Dick
National “Swine Flu” Influenza Immunization Program of 1976 is something i found when i happened to think of what people might be getting vaccinations for in 1976 when Field Work was published
possibly talking about gardening in some points
> cows on the train: manure for fertilizer, fungus, the last part talks about flowers blooming
Heaney lived for four years in the country after moving form Northern to Southern Ireland**
progressing through time/seasons
**http://www.nytimes.com/1979/12/02/books/heaney-field.html?pagewanted=all
-Samantha Smiley
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