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Field of Vision. Heaney’s Aunt Mary whom he adored as a youngster is the central focus of Sunlight, a lyrical vignette from his early life in Mossbawn that introduces the North collection of 1975. Field of vision recalls the increasingly limited outlook the old aunt was reduced to in her last years.
The poet’s vision is sharp enough to focus on a particular and apparently unromantic, unpastoral detail: a vaccination mark on the upper arm of an as-yet-undefined “you.” A train comes by to...
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[POEM] Seamus Heaney, “Field of Vision” I remember this woman who sat for years. In a wheelchair, looking straight ahead. Out the window at sycamore trees unleafing. And leafing at the far end of the lane. Straight out past the TV in the corner, The stunted, agitated hawthorn bush, The same small calves with their backs to wind and rain,
The New York Review of Books essayist Richard Murphy described Heaney as "the poet who has shown the finest art in presenting a coherent vision of Ireland, past and present." Heaney's poetry is known for its aural beauty and finely-wrought textures.
One of those lean, clean, iron, roadside ones. Between two whitewashed pillars, where you could see deeper into the country than you expected. And discovered that the field behind the hedge. Grew more distinctly strange as you kept standing. Focused and drawn in by what barred the way". Simile: "Her brow was clear as the chrome bits of the chair".
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