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I'm enjoying Heaney's bog people poems. I've read a few poem of his before but nothing ever captured my imagination until "Strange Fruit" and "Punishment" and just now the one about the croppies, the meaning of which I will have to go look up. I saw some people they'd dug out of peatbog when I was up in Denmark eight years ago. They were on display in the churches there and I was fascinated by them but had forgotten about them until I read Heaney's work here. I read on another site that the one about the girl, "Strange Fruit," is actually an breakdown on the Irish political scene. Any thoughts?
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