{"id":4527,"date":"2013-09-04T23:20:03","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T06:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/?p=4527"},"modified":"2013-09-04T23:21:05","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T06:21:05","slug":"excerpt-from-from-the-canton-of-expectation-by-seamus-heaney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2013\/09\/04\/excerpt-from-from-the-canton-of-expectation-by-seamus-heaney\/","title":{"rendered":"Excerpt from ‘From the Canton of Expectation’ by Seamus Heaney"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today at lunch I paged through an anthology of Seamus Heaney’s works from the university library. This is part of one of the best poems I came across called ‘From the Canton of Expectation’. I love the imagery of the children discarding their history for the modern fast life, only to wish or hope for it back. I am, and have been, all the people in this story at one moment or another.<\/p>\n

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Books open in the newly wired kitchens.
\nYoung heads that might have dozed a life away
\nagainst the flanks of milking cows were busy
\npaving and pencilling their first causeways
\nacross the prescribed texts. The paving stones
\nof quadrangles came next and a grammar
\nof imperatives, the new age of demands.
\nThey would banish the conditional for ever,
\nthis generation born impervious to
\nthe triumph in our cries of de profundis.
\nOur faith in winning by enduring most
\nthey made anathema, intelligences
\nbrightened and unmannerly as crowbars.<\/p>\n

I yearn for hammerblows on clinkered planks,
\nthe uncompromised report of driven thole-pins,
\nto know there is one among us who never swerved
\nfrom all his instincts told him was right action
\nwho stood his ground in the indicative,
\nwhose boat will lift when the cloudburst happens.<\/p>\n

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Today at lunch I paged through an anthology of Seamus Heaney’s works from the university library. This is part of one of the best poems I came across called ‘From the Canton of Expectation’. I love the imagery of the children discarding their history for the modern fast life, only to wish or hope for … <\/p>\n

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