Amalgamation of Multiple Temporal and Spacial Frames in “Sunlight” by Seamus Heaney

Abstract

Time and space are the two dimensions of any work of
art. How a writer employs these two decides how good a piece may be.
Many writers use it two add depth to there work and so does Heaney, in
many of his poems. “Digging” and other such poems are an example of
these, what sets “Sunlight” apart from other such poems however is the
ease and mastery with which Heaney amalgamates various temporal and
special shifts in it. This paper seeks to analyze which frames of time and
space are created in the poems and how Heaney blends them to merge
into each other.