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Comment 3 of 3, added on October 19th, 2005 at 9:47 AM.
it's also about the irish langauage and the survival of irish culture. The whole notion of the role being called in irish, Anseo meaning 'Here' yet the irish language is conspiciously absent from the poem. the poet doesn't speak it and neither does Ward who's fighting for a united ireland. It questions the how we understand identity.
Lá from Ireland
Comment 2 of 3, added on August 11th, 2005 at 7:27 AM.
Yes, I'd agree with "Osama." What "Osama" misses, though, is that the boy becomes just like his schoolmaster, and the cycle continues.
Patty Lee
Comment 1 of 3, added on March 10th, 2005 at 3:20 AM.
This poem is obviously about a strict upbringing leading to overall rebellion against the irish government, or joining of the I.R.A if you will. One boy, once a beaten schoolboy, in a strict school, that trapped, enclosed him, and stood against anything he ever wanted or believed in, has turned him into the equivelent, the anti-, if you will,-government body.
Osama Bin Laden from Ethiopia
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it's also about the irish langauage and the survival of irish culture. The whole notion of the role being called in irish, Anseo meaning 'Here' yet the irish language is conspiciously absent from the poem. the poet doesn't speak it and neither does Ward who's fighting for a united ireland. It questions the how we understand identity.
Lá from Ireland