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Guerrillas by Seamus Deane

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Seamus Deane’s beautiful poem probably derives from the experience of a child in the port city of Derry, encountering the foreign sailors and witnessing the city’s response to them.

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Seamus Heaney is comparing his wife’s pregnancy to an imperial occupation that will spawn rebellion against him, perhaps an analogy with Ireland’s conquest by Britain and the growth of a community here which is estranged from the coloniser.

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