The poet, Heaney, also has mixed feelings for the mother; therefore, he did not condemn the mother for her crime against life, but, on the same token, translates that the loss of the childs life is a great tragedy. Seamus Heaney uses a fishing theme throughout the story in order to tie it together for the reader, but also to reference the catch in life. In Limbo, both the word limbo, and fishing are main themes in the poem.
Limbo is defined as many things, the first being a region on the border of hell or heaven, serving as the abode after death of unbaptized infants, which perfectly describes the child found in Limbo limbo. This infant is caught in the conflict of the time, ad being both illegitimate and not baptized, not even the hand of God can save his soul. Heaney acknowledges that by referring to the child as an illegitimate spawning, which has to do with the childs birth and by also alluding to the fact that even Christ cannot save his soul, hence in limbo forever, by saying that even Christs palms, unhealed, smart and cannot fish there.
Christs palms, unhealed makes reference to the crucifixion of Christ on the cross for the sins of the world; whereas, cannot fish there means that due to circumstances, even that sacrifice will not save that childs soul. Lindsey Cherry Essay 1 Mr. Anderson Another definition to the word limbo is the place or state of oblivion to which persons or things are regarded as being relegated when cast aside, forgotten, past, or out of date limbo. This can be applied to the mother as she struggles with herself emotionally to cope with her decision to drown her child.
She stood in the waters ducking him tenderly, motherly, and lovingly as she takes his life; however, he was tearing her open. She was torn with her choice, and was in limbo between valuing his life, and for her own reasons not being able to keep him and deciding to end his life. In that space between her and her child, she was disregarding all but her judgment and her child, everything has been cast aside, even time as she wades till the frozen knobs of her wrists were dead as the gravel.
The author also recognizes her struggle emotionally. Heaney wrote about her struggle in an emotional, sympathetic way. He begins describing the scene with gentle words such as small one, shallows, ducking, etcetera, but as the poem reaches the end, he uses strong dark words like cross, hauled in, and cold glitter of souls, which all depict the general awareness that what she has done was an evil deed.
The inner turmoil that the author portrays in his poem, Limbo, helps the reader to understand the perception of the childs death mainly through the actions of the mother by taking us through her trials. Heaney also made fishing a main theme in his poem to draw in the reader by connecting different scenes by a central motif.
He referenced the baby to be an illegitimate spawning, which illegitimate is the literal allusion to the birth status of the human child, but he ties in spawning, which is the verbal allusion to how fish birth their fry.
He also illustrates how the baby was killed, as in the place and the literal killing of the baby, by saying the baby was a small one thrown back. This makes reference to. Anderson a small fish, when fishing, is thrown back the water. Heaney also calls the baby a minnow with hooks in connection with the mother since she has such ties to him that it breaks her heart to have to kill him.
Keeping with the fishing theme, Heaney compares the baby to a minnow, and says that in drowning him, or the baby being thrown back, she has been torn by the hooks that have become attached to her because of her child as if by killing her child she is killing a part of herself. One of the most important illustration of the fishing theme comes when Heaney describes the sacrifice of Christ not being enough to save the soul of the infant by saying that even Christs palms, unhealed, smart and cannot fish there.
There was no literal meaning when he stated cannot fish there, he meant it as an allusion to Christs inability, based on Catholic belief, to have the child join him in heaven.
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