A Drink of Water-Heaney

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Seamus Heaney
- Rural labour interpretations with 'pump' and 'bucket' in the setting of a 'field'- Experience of farming as a boy- direct overlap with speaker and poet
- A Drink of Water
  - Devices
Published in Heaney's 1979 volume of Fieldwork
Single stanza poem. Total of 14 lines.
- Heaney incorporates peaceful evocations of his boyhood to set a calm mood and nostalgic tone
- Structure
  - A Drink of Water
    - Devices
Assonance with repetitive use of 'A'
- 'water','draw','apron','back' etc.
Designed to unsettle reader with troubling connotations of 'full moon' and 'bat'
- Undertone of darkness can be associated with elegy style poems
  - Undertone of approaching death with the connotations of elderly
'Remember the giver' (italicized)
- Reinforces the religious belief that a receiver should remain faithful to a giver

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