Electric light: The Pastoral Tradition

الملخص

This paper articulates the pastoral flavor in Heaney's techno-named collection Electric Light (2001). Ironically enough, instead of revealing the effect of the mechanization of light, Electric Light devotes itself to pastoralism altogether. Due to the storming technological developments occurring in our present century, the romanticized nature is pushed to the background. This, however, does not mean that modern poets neglect exploiting elements of nature in their poetry, especially the pastoral ones. Such is the case, modern poets try their best to use nature, particularly the rural elements, in spite of their antiromanticisim, though against the modern climate of thought. Heaney, through his Irish tradition, utilizes the rural elements in his poetry, chief among which is