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The Diviner
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The Diviner

 
[To the Notes]
 

Cut from the green hedge a forked hazel stick

That he held tight by the arms of the V:

Circling the terrain, hunting the pluck

Of water, nervous, but professionally

 

Unfussed. The pluck came sharp as a sting.

The rod jerked down with precise convulsions,

Spring water suddenly broadcasting

Through a green aerial its secret stations.

 

The bystanders would ask to have a try.

He handed them the rod without a word.

It lay dead in their grasp till nonchalantly

He gripped expectant wrists. The hazel stirred.

 

---(c) Seamus Heaney. All rights reserved. 

   
 
 
   
Notes
 

This poem is about a farmer with a special tool of finding water spring. Heaney writes people and daily life of his living background. He compares poet to a water diviner who longs for the water stream. Actually, a water diviner’s humble work is very essential for Irish people in life.

 

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Ireland : the living landscape
• By: Tom KellyPeter Somerville-LargeSeamus Heaney.
• Publisher: Schull, West Cork ; Niwot, Colo. : Roberts Rinehart, ©1992.
 
 
   
     
     
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