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Punishment

Seamus Heaney

Form
Form Poem
Year
Year 1975
Pages
Pages 2

A poet looks at the preserved body of a girl executed in an Iron Age bog and admits he understands, better than he wants to, the crowds who punish women in his own Ulster.

I can feel the tug of the halter at the nape of her neck, the wind on her naked front.
Punishment, Seamus Heaney

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