“I rhyme, to see myself, to set the darkness echoing.” How far does this statement apply to and sum up Seamus Heaney’s intentions in writing poetry?

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Heaney also explores darkness on varying levels from the literal to the metaphysical in terms of morality, as well as shining effulgence on the forgotten people. “Personal Helicon” marks a departure from his autobiographical earlier work, within the collection “Death of a Naturalist”, “Personal Helicon” shows this transition from exploring childhood, to exploring the world beyond himself, in terms of national history, and identity; though by extension implicitly understanding and exploring himself...
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The poems structure is composed of five stanzas; the first four stanzas are mostly composed of monosyllabic nouns with a simple lexicon, mimicking a child’s speech; the exception being, “Fructified”. Therefore in the first four stanzas it clearly explores Heaney as a child looking back in the past tense at his “raison d’etre”, he is preoccupied with the hedonistic, perhaps epitomizing Freud’s psychological principle with the, “will to pleasure”, or Adler’s “will to power”...
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