‘stalled in the pre-articulate’ shop of the heart’,^106 butinto the earth itself as source, out of which men emerge,
not new-born but more knowledgeable and brutally chastened, ‘like discharged
soldiers’, witnesses to the incomprehensible prospect of at once ‘sorrow’ and ‘joy’.^107
(^106) W. B. Yeats, ‘The Circus Animals’ Desertion’, inThe Poems, ed. Daniel Albright (London: Dent,
1990), 395.
(^107) Heaney, ‘Watchman’s War’, 414.