Seamus Heaney: A Portrait of a Poet in Search of His Unique Voice

The most accurate voice to inform a poet is the closest voice to him. therefore, the artist en route to reach universality finds the source of his uniqueness in his own values. what he seeks, in effect, is a voice coloured with the factors contributing to his personality and raised in concurrence with a harmonious music. analysing the works of 1995 nobel laureate seamus heaney, one can see he attaches great importance to these elements. he believes that the poetic voice exposes its owner like a fingerpri ntand its musicality leads to the creation of interlinear harmony. this voice has bilateral functions; it both distinguishes the poet from average men in terms of his gift and provides a distinct position, within literary tradition, among other poets. the said uniqueness has been felt in all his oeuvre with the same incandescence since his early poems. this is one of the factors that takes the poet from the mossbawn locale and places him among the distinguished representatives of contemporary brtish poetry.