The Irish have their own language when it comes to poetry….Infused with words both made-up and from the old Irish language , it becomes like the works of James Joyce – inscrutable but understandable through context.
Patrick Kavanagh is an Irish poet who is not as bad as all that….He starts out at the same reference point as other Irish poets such as Seamus Heaney but is more primitive in his descriptions and oriented towards nature with the language used almost religious in its devotion.
Sentiment is more readily apparent in his work and he is clearly a “feeler” one with great sensitivity….I’m particularly fond of this poem THE HOSPITAL…. We do assign meaning to the places we stay even briefly in life.
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