A Study on the Landscape Writing in Seamus Heaney's Early Poetry
In early poetry of Seamus Heaney,landscape is presented in the forms of landscape of natural ecology,farm practices and place-names.The landscape description is not only a way of nostalgia for the disappearing Irish natural scenes,but also contributes to deal with writer's relationship with homeland and home culture,expressing his ambivalent feeling of being allied as well as alienated toward native traditional culture.Meanwhile,the landscape description is a poetic transcendence as well as a retreat for Heaney to rec-oncile conflicts and helps to keep a proper balance between artistic freedom and social responsibility.