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 · Student’s NameProfessor’s NameCourseDateSecond Response Paper: Sweeney AstrayTransformation in the poem Sweeney Astray by Heaney Seamus is a painful and fascinating process, which shows that exaggerations and the physically impossible events are the primary parts of the narrations that poets compile. The transformation of Sweeney to a bird as opposed to other . SWEENEY ASTRAY. By Seamus Heaney. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, ISBN # / 85 pages. Comments by Bob Corbett. May Sweeney Astray is an early Medieval Irish epic poem. The “Astray” is not his last name, but the fact of his going astray from normal life after a regrettable deed he committed. By BRENDAN KENNELLY. SWEENEY ASTRAY. A Version From the Irish. By Seamus Heaney. ne of the crucial signs of a genuine imagination is its ability to give new life to old myths, stories and legends.

Sweeney Astray is Seamus Heaney's version of the medieval Irish work Buile Suibne. Its here, Mad Sweeney, undergoes a series of purgatorial adventures after he is cursed by a saint and turned into a bird at the Battle of Moira. Heaney's translation not only restores to us a work of historical and literary importance but offers the genius of one. Sweeney's Flight. by. Seamus Heaney (translator), Rachel Giese Brown. · Rating details · 25 ratings · 4 reviews. Thirty-four exceptional photographs by Giese of Northern Ireland, which Heaney has matched with extracts and quotations from Sweeney Astray, revised especialy for this book. Heaney has written a preface to this joint work. Sweeney Astray is Seamus Heaney's translation of the medieval Irish text Buile Suibhne, 'The Madness of Suibhne,' a tale in verse and prose that describes how Suibhne (Sweeney), an Ulster king, clashes with a local cleric, Rónán, and having been cursed by the cleric, goes mad during the battle of Magh Rath (modernised to Moira in Heaney's version) in the year

Sweeney Astray: A Version from the Irish is a version of the Irish poem Buile Shuibhne written by Seamus Heaney, based on an earlier translation by J.G. O'Keeffe. The work was first published in and won the PEN Translation Prize for verse, the first year the prize was awarded as such. "Sweeney Astray" is Seamus Heaney's version of a very old Irish poem that sounds strikingly modern. Sweeney, the King of Dal-Arie, becomes involved in a territorial dispute with the priest Ronan. After Sweeney killed one of Ronan's priests, the cleric cursed the king, who, at the battle of Moria suddenly lost his wits and courage and fled, the text says, like a bird, literally. SWEENEY ASTRAY. Published in , Sweeney Astray is Seamus Heaney’s version of the medieval Irish work Buile Suibhne. Its hero, Mad Sweeney, undergoes a series of purgatorial adventures after he is cursed at the Battle of Moira. The poetry spoken by the mad king, exiled to the trees and the slopes, is among the richest and most immediately appealing in the whole canon of Old Irish literature and this translation not only restored a work of historical and literary importance, but allowed.