Prompt #2

In “The Sense of Place,” Seamus Heaney writes that there are two ways in which place operates: “One is lived, illiterate and unconscious, the other learned, literate and conscious.” Consider the way place, as such, operates in the poetry of either Seamus Heaney or Derek Mahon. You may wish to investigate topics such as home, naming, boundaries or divisions, one’s place in society, childhood, work, or community.