Seamus Heaney on the Surface, Term Paper

And indeed life was like the churning and stinking of the butter-making process. "Brains turned crystals full of clean deal churns"; this is the poet saying that living and thinking was a process like making butter; you have to have something of substance to begin with, then you have to make sure it is "clean" and finally, it is complete.

Poetic form "is both the ship and the anchor," Heaney stated in his Nobel lecture. Poetry holds the power to "persuade that vulnerable part of our consciousness of its rightness in spite of the evidence of wrongness all around it." And when apoem like Churning Dy is presented, it helps the reder in 2007 - while shopping t Sfewy for pound of butter in net qurters - remember tht butter ws once mde t home in n elborte nd smelly process, nd tht mothers got blistered hnds nd ching rms so the fmily could enjoy their mel.

While wr ws very much in evidence in young Heney's life, it is lso very much prt of the news in present dy life. And though it is very different wr fought for very different resons thn WWII ws fought, the tste of butter hs….....