by contrast...

[waider]

RTÉ closed the main evening news broadcast with a brief montage of images from the last thirty years of "The Troubles", with a voiceover of Seamus Heaney reading one of his pieces on the subject. Both tasteful and poignant, not words I'm accustomed to associating with news programmes.

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[waider.livejournal.com]

[* Obscure poetry joke warning]

far too obscure for my unlearned ass.

[niallm.livejournal.com]

http://bama.ua.edu/~clifford/lit/midtermbreak.htm

Rather famous, and inevitably done in late primary/early secondary school.

[waider.livejournal.com]

Ah, indeed it does look familiar, but only vaguely so. I've no distinct recollection of ever reading it, but some of the wording is triggering a distant recollection.