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Abstract
Divided into a colonized North and a free Republic and divorced from its Gaelic literary tradition, Ireland has witnessed the birth of generations of poets who have struggled to resist such forms of evil and violence surrounding their country. This dissertation lays a special emphasis on the poetry of Seamus Heaney and Thomas Kinsella: two examples who represent Irish resistance poetry in the North and the South. The study is concerned with analyzing the thematic, linguistic, and figurative aspects in the two poets’ verse. The argument emphasizes Heaney and Kinsella’s constant reference to Irish nature, Gaelic tradition, and lost heritage as effective sources that would emphasize their Irish identity and culture in the face of territorial and cultural hegemony of Imperialism, in addition to the corrupt governmental body of the State. Art as a mode of political resistance is the focus here; it is a type of resistance that may eventually lead to public reactions or even revolutions that overthrow all forces of evil.
The conclusion eventually affirms the importance of Heaney and Kinsella as two examples of Irish resistance poetry. Each one of them employs the various forms of violence and corruption surrounding him to write poems that would unveil them to the ordinary reader. Both of them aim at achieving harmony and reaching peace throughout the Irish community. However, the greatest contribution of the study is introducing Kinsella’s poetry which was neglected in the literary circles shortly after the publishing of Butcher’s Dozen in which the Irish poet sets a fierce attack against the British Imperial policies in Ireland – killing, internment, violence, etc. Despite his original form and unique verse, the researcher for Kinsella and his poetry finds a few number of books and reviews that criticize and analyze his works which makes this research of a remarkable importance in shedding the light on such an important literary figure