Servant boy, Seanus Heaney

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Servant boy
- Meaning
  - NOT AN EXPERIENCEOF HEANEY
  - Exploitation of Ireland by Britain
    - Britain = farmer Ireland= servant
  - Link to Constable calls
- Language
  - hurricane-lamp
    - symbol of hope for Ireland to break away
      - only glimmer of dignity left
  - "a jobber amongst shadows"
    - unimportant - dismissed
      - "some outhouse"
  - "Old work whore"
    - bitterness - has to sell himself to work - no power
  - "impenitent"
    - plosive sounds - bitter
      - "little barons - demeans Britain
    - doesn't regret - will keep his pride to be Irish
  - "you draw me into/your trail"
    - Long and hard with many obstacles
      - metaphor for preserving the fragile peace during the Troubles in North Ireland,
      - "the distresses that we are all undergoing in this country at the minute" (Heaney) at that time in the 1970s
  - "warm eggs."
    - positive final image - hope
      - symbol of hope for Ireland to break away
        only glimmer of dignity left
- Structure
  - Five quatrains (four?line stanzas) made of only 3 sentences
    - combines with enjambment to give plodding pace
      - Struggle / Irish endurance
  - barons: resentful
  - The boy
1.portrait from a distance 2.zooms in - relatable t again to create sympathy 3.distances himself

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