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A review by dullshimmer
Death of a Naturalist by Seamus Heaney
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
3.0
I had kind of a mixed experience with Seamus Heaney's Death of a Naturalist. There were a number of poems that I did really like, or at least found very powerful. There were also a number that just didn't really hit me very much at all.
The ones that I really enjoyed or found striking were Digging, Follower, and Mid-Term Break. There were others that I liked to some degree or another, but these three stood out the most to me. Three out of a whole collection of poems isn't super amazing for me.
I think that a large part of it is the topic of his work. It's a very farming and agriculture centered poetry. While there are poems on the raw beauty of nature like in the poem Waterfall, much of it is not and is more centered on the growing of crops, the various animals around a farm, or miscellaneous other events (like finding a rat on the walk home) that just didn't really resonate with me that much.
The ones that I really enjoyed or found striking were Digging, Follower, and Mid-Term Break. There were others that I liked to some degree or another, but these three stood out the most to me. Three out of a whole collection of poems isn't super amazing for me.
I think that a large part of it is the topic of his work. It's a very farming and agriculture centered poetry. While there are poems on the raw beauty of nature like in the poem Waterfall, much of it is not and is more centered on the growing of crops, the various animals around a farm, or miscellaneous other events (like finding a rat on the walk home) that just didn't really resonate with me that much.