셰이머스 히니의 시론에 입각한 「글랜모어 소네트」 연구: 기억의 경작과 언어 봉사

The Study of Seamus Heaney’s “Glanmore Sonnets”: ploughing memories and serving language

This paper focuses on Seamus Heaney’s “Glanmore Sonnets” from Field Work(1979) and examines how the sequence represents Heaney’s poetics, based on various studies of Heaney’s works. “Glanmore Sonnets,” consisting of 10 sonnets, shows the way of his “ploughing” a symbolic “field of memories” and “serving people by serving language.” Heaney’s unique way of referring to memories reminds us of a farmer’s ploughing. “Ploughing” imagery is distinct only in the first sonnet but recurs indirectly in others. “Glanmore Sonnets” shows how ploughing memories are relevant to his current life and serve his poetic language. Furthermore, “Glanmore Revisited” in See Things(1991) shows how Glanmore gave Heaney “the sense of place” and let him find the continuity of “self” as a poet. Studying “Glanmore Sonnets” is a way of discovering what Heaney looked for during his Glanmore life. It gave him a turning point while building his poetic career subsequent to Field Work. In considering other poems of Heaney in connection with “Glanmore Sonnets,” this study aims to shed light on Heaney’s paradigm of art as a whole.