This is “Punishment,” my favorite poem by Seamus Heaney. So there I am, in my English Lit class (it must have been Longmire’s class, because Carson taught early English Lit, Haegert was Modernism and Lit Crit, Clough was totally American Lit, and I only took World Lit with Richardson. I remember this poem in Dr.Continue reading “Seamus Heaney, 1939-2013”