Wednesday, December 19, 2007

My Interpretation of Seamus Heaney's "Bog Queen"

"Bog Queen"
She awaits in her eternal sleep for now and forever beneath the peat and moss, waiting to be unearthed by the unsuspecting traveler or peat cutter. Creepy crawlers crawl all over her while other water animals make her body useful by putting their spawn around and in her. Animals and other things come and chew and eat her. While she seems calm, even peaceful towards the world who bound her in the ground.
Her body waits through the winter than she is robbed of all she had and then buried within the the bogs once again. Still she waits until some one unearths her sickish body from her would be eternal tomb. There she sits on the bank of the bog with her body torn and disheveled, for the people to figure out her story.

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