Response phase

In our drama class, we have been exploring and improvising scenes based on the stimuli gassed by John Singer Sargent and the two poetries which are Summer 1969 by Seamus Heaney and Anthem for doomed youth by Wilfred Owen. Both the two stimuli concentrated on the same focus which is war and violence.

Seamus Heaney who wrote Summer 1969 is a famous Irish Poet born in1939, on a farm in Mossbawn, which is in the North of Ireland. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995 and was elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford and Oratory at Harvard. His father was particularly careful in talking and his mother especially ready to speak out, a circumstance which Seamus Heaney believes to have been fundamental to the "quarrel with himself" out of which his poetry arises. Heaney's poems first came to public attention in the mid-1960s when he was active as one of a group of poets. He sees the fate of having been born into a society deeply divided along religious and political lines, one which was...