Sunlight

'Sunlight' is a modernist poem written by the late Irish poet, Seamus Heaney. Heaney dedicated this poem to his Aunt Mary. In the poem, the speaker is inside a kitchen with his aunt, or mother figure. He is baking scones with her. Sunrise is about a nostalgic memory in the speaker's childhood. The poem is very silent and calm. It never references sound. The imagery of sunlight is of heat and the sun. References to heat and the sun include 'sunlit,' 'heated' and 'reddening stove'. The language in this poem includes lots of 'l's and 'o's to slow down the reader. Examples of these words are "sunlit,' 'iron,' and 'honeyed'. The theme of this poem is nostalgia.  What the speaker is seeing is numerous occasions in the past dominated by the heat of the sun.

Seamus Heaney was an Irish poet. He received a Nobel Prize in literature in 1995. He was born on the 13th of April, 1939.He past away ,aged 74, on the 30th of August, 2013. Heaney has been a professor at Harvard and Oxford. Other awards he has received include Geoffry Faber Memorial Prize, the E.M. Forster award, the PEN Translation Prize, the Golden Wreath of Poetry,  the T. S. Eliot Prize and two Whitbread Prizes. He was called "The most important Irish poet since Yeats" by Robert Lowell, another successful poet. Some of his best poems include 'Death of a Naturalist,' 'Beowulf,' and 'Field Work'.

By A.L.