Bye-Child

What I like about Seamus Heaneys Bye-child
is the way you see the story from reading the poem.
I also like the way he used words like moonboy and lunar distances, to signify the boys separation form the rest of the world. I loved the way he use broad vowels like a and o to create a languishing slow mood, it was one of the many things that intrigued me along with the way Heaney descried the boy through out the boy as if he was slowly turning in to a chicken. What also shocks me is that the poem is based off a true story that happened in Ireland. Which also made me even more intrigued with the poem as I read it again and again.

What I like about Heaney in general is they way all of his poems make you think twice as you read them and figure out their meaning. I also like the way he can write in any format and make it seem brand new and interesting,and every time I get my hands on one of his poems i find my self reading again and again until I truly understand the story and what inspired him to write it. And that is why I like Seamus Heaney's poems.
By M. Smyth