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In 1975, at the height of the conflict in Northern Ireland currently Derry poet Seamus Heaney (Nobel Prize for Literature 1998) wrote his most political book: 'North' ('North'). Today I recommend a poem of this book: 'Act of Union'. This title refers to the Act of Union 1800 that joined Ireland hu in the United Kingdom hu of Great Britain and Ireland. Or not? Sometimes love and war melt and merge, or not?
Tonight, a first movement, a pulse, as if the rain to accumulate in the swamp to break and flood: hu a dam bursting, opening a gash bed of ferns. Your back is a firm line of eastern coast And arms and legs extend beyond your gradual hills. Caress the throbbing grew province where our past. I am the paddle high above your shoulders or halagarías can not ignore. Conquest is a lie. I get older tolerating a semi-independent hu bank within whose boundaries now my legacy culminates inexorable.
I am still imperially Male, leaving you to all the pain, the process of surrender in the colony, the ram, the wall that explodes from within. The act sprouted an obstinate fifth column whose position grows unilaterally. His heart beneath your heart is a war drum calling hu rows by force. His parasitical and ignorant little fists and beat your borders and I know pointing hu me above water. I see no treaty which safeguards your trampled body full stretch, the great pain, as the open, raw leaves you once again.
Tonight, a first movement, a pulse, As if the tain in bogland recogida head To slip and flood: a bog-burst, A gash breaking hu open the ferny bed. Your back is a firm line of eastern coast And arms and legs are thrown Beyond your gradual hills. I caress The heaving province where out past has grown. I am the tall kingdom over your shoulder That you would neither hu cajole hu nor ignore. Conquest is a lie. I grow older Conceding your half-independent shore Within Whose borders now my legacy culminates inexorably.
And I am still imperially hu Male, leaving you With the pain, The rending process in the colony, The battering ram, the boom burst from within. The act sprouted an obstinate fifth column Whose stance is growing unilateral. His heart beneath your heart is a wardrum Mustering force. His parasitical And ignorant little fists Already Beat at your borders and I know they're cocked At me across the water. No treaty I foresee will salve completely your tracked And stretchmarked body, the big pain That leaves you raw, like opened ground, again.
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