Seamus Heaney¡s works use parallelism and mood to portray the effects of the political atmosphere of Ireland on his writing. The political and social conflicts in Ireland caused Heaney to parallel his poetry to the injustices that were taking place in these conflicts. The purpose of Heaney¡s poems is to inform the public of the unethical actions occurring in Northern Ireland. Most of Heaney¡s poems tend to express dreary hopeless mood to the reader. Using these the literary devices of parallelism and mood Heaney displays the effect of political atmosphere on his works North and Field Work.
             North and Field Work explore the political atmosphere in Northern Ireland from Heaney¡s Catholic background. Heaney is often placed in a no-win situation because he is condemned both for confronting the situation too intensely and for not addressing the problem (Pellegrino 4). Heaney admits this inner conflict and struggle of whether to speak out or remain neutral. He acknowledged the fact that the Christian moralist part of him wished to speak out against the IRA¡s campaign of bombings and killings, yet the Irish side of him was shocked by the cruelty of the British Army on occasions such as Bloody Sunday (Heaney 22-23). Heaney¡s poetry manages to maintain balance despite his uncertainty. He keeps balance in his work by expressing the opinions and emotions of the invader and the invaded, both the victims and the perpetrators (Bloom 94). Heaney¡s series of bog poems address the political and social situation in Northern Ireland through a study of the victims of tribal!
             sacrifice. His fascination with the past allows him to comment on the present through these poems (Pellegrino 2).
             The social history of Ireland is quite evident in Seamus Heaney¡s work. A horrifying account of killing is found in his poems, as well as in his interpretations of other works (Bloom 178). One way in which Heaney portrays this gruesome killing is ...