The Haw Lantern

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The Haw Lantern is a 1987 poetry collection by Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney that reflects on themes of conscience, mortality, and political turmoil in Ireland.

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The Haw Lantern canonical 3
The Haw Lantern (poem) 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf book
poetry collection
associatedWith Seamus Heaney
surface form: Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney

The Troubles
author Seamus Heaney
countryOfOrigin Ireland
explores aging and death
moral judgment
personal conscience
public responsibility
follows Station Island
form lyric poetry
sequence of poems
genre poetry
hasCoverArtist Faber and Faber design department
hasDedication to his mother (via Clearances sequence)
hasMotif lantern as conscience
light and darkness
hasPoem Clearances
From the Land of the Unspoken
From the Republic of Conscience
Terminus
The Disappearing Island
The Haw Lantern self-linksurface differs
surface form: The Haw Lantern (poem)

The Mud Vision
The Stone Verdict
hasReception critically acclaimed
hasSection Clearances sonnet sequence
hasTheme Irish politics
conscience
ethics
identity
memory
mortality
political turmoil
responsibility
violence
influencedBy Catholic upbringing of Seamus Heaney
Irish history
language English
literaryPeriod late 20th-century poetry
notableWorkOf Seamus Heaney
originalPublisherCountry United Kingdom
partOf Seamus Heaney bibliography
publicationYear 1987
publisher Faber and Faber
setIn Ireland

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Seamus Heaney notableWork The Haw Lantern
The Haw Lantern hasPoem The Haw Lantern self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: The Haw Lantern (poem)
Seeing Things follows The Haw Lantern
Station Island precedes The Haw Lantern