“Had I not been awake I would have missed it”
Seamus Heaney * Track #1 On Human Chain
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"Had I not been awake I would have missed it" by Seamus Heaney
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This is from Heaney’s final collection, Human Chain , published in 2010. In 2006 he suffered a stroke. His determination to rebuild his life and health, to continue his poetry writing is expressed through this poem. The mood is notably positive, conveying a sense of exhileration at having survived t...
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Had I not been awake I would have missed it,
A wind that rose and whirled until the roof
Pattered with quick leaves off the sycamore
And got me up, the whole of me a-patter,
Alive and ticking like an electric fence:
Had I not been awake I would have missed it
It came and went too unexpectedly
And almost it seemed dangerously,
Hurtling like an animal at the house,
A courier blast that there and then
Lapsed ordinary. But not ever
After. And not now.
“Had I not been awake I would have missed it” Q&A
When did Seamus Heaney release “Had I not been awake I would have missed it”?
Seamus Heaney released “Had I not been awake I would have missed it” on Fri Jan 01 2010.