Funeral Rites
Poetry
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Seamus Heaney
Funeral Rites Summary
This is a mourning poem. When the poet wrote this poem, there was a heated relationship between Catholics and Protestants. A war broke out between them in Northern Ireland in which more than three thousand people died. The poet basically through this poem requested them to perform the last rites of those people who died and expressed that they should stop this war and reconcile among themselves.
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Funeral Rites Key Facts
Title: Funeral Rites
Poet: Seamus Heaney (1939-2013)
Published Date: 1975
Themes: Death, grief, mourning, rituals, cultural traditions, the cycle of life and death.
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