‘Casualty’: An Introduction
Reading Time: < 1 minute Casualty is one of Heaney’s finest poems, first appearing in the collection ‘Field Work’ (1979) and later in Opened Ground: Selected Poems 1966-1996 (1998). The poem is an elegy reminiscent of Yeats’ ‘Easter 1916’. Based on a true incident, it mourns the death of a fisherman known to Heaney, who fell victim to an outbreak of violence, a…
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