Beauty and atrocity of sacrifice in Seamus Heaney's "The Tollund Man" and "The Graublle Man"

Abstract EN

The paper deals with the poet Seamus Heaney's method in depending on the images of "the bog" which is a symbol of memory and as a repository of the sacrificial experiences in favor of a promise of a next prosperity.

The poet tries to make an analogy between the tribal sacrificial rituals with one of its member in exchange for a coming fertile spring and the catholic minority's contemporary sacrifices in Northern Ireland for the sake of peace in a united Home.

Furthermore, the poet is torn between the tribal allegiance and the atrocity of the sacrifice