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Comment 4 of 4, added on July 19th, 2006 at 7:32 PM.
In this magnificent poem thee is an opposition being enacted. If on the one hand the place is of clear water, it darkens the stones. It seems that the knowledge this very first school Heaney has attended, has been helpful in some ways, but daring in other ways. I believe this is why he repeats this theme in some of his other poems
Viviane Oak from Brazil
Comment 3 of 4, added on June 6th, 2006 at 8:44 AM.
Anahorish the placename of a small rural area in South Derry in the North of Ireland. It borders Moss Bawn where Seamus Heaney was born and it was the first hill on his horizon. Seamus Heaney did attend Annahorish Primary School but it is the place Anahorish that the poem is written about. The placename means "place of clear/excellent water"
Malachy Gribbin from Ireland
Comment 2 of 4, added on May 18th, 2006 at 8:13 AM.
Anahorish school was not a boarding school as I went there for 7 years!! The name Anahorish means hill of spring water in the Irish language. The underground springs can be heard clearly in certain parts of the area.
Nadine from United Kingdom
Comment 1 of 4, added on May 31st, 2005 at 9:20 AM.
Anahorish was the boarding school which Seamus Heaney attended as a boy.The underlying theme of the poem is that of school and innocence.We can notice the opposition between light and darkness ("my'place of clear water'", "lamps","darkened cobbles", which illustrates the contrast between the school, place of knowledge and enlightment, which Heaney as a child seeked to acquire,and his old world (he came from a family of farmers, see the poems "Digging" or "Follower").
Juliette from France
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In this magnificent poem thee is an opposition being enacted. If on the one hand the place is of clear water, it darkens the stones. It seems that the knowledge this very first school Heaney has attended, has been helpful in some ways, but daring in other ways. I believe this is why he repeats this theme in some of his other poems
Viviane Oak from Brazil