Bog Essays

  • Bog Plants and Their Use in Medicine

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    Bog Plants and Their Use in Medicine Although most of the modern world does not often resort to bog plants for medicinal uses when there are more widely accessible forms of medicine to treat certain health needs, there exists numerous medicinal uses for bog plants. The various medicinal uses of different bog plants have developed and changed over the course of history. Bog plants were more commonly used by Native Indians as medicine such as the Ledum groenlandicum (Labrador tea) for sore throats

  • Bog Bodies Essay

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    contributed to our understanding of European Bog Bodies? Bog bodies are bodies that have either been forced or fell into a peat bog while still alive. A bog itself is a wetland that over years accumulates a matter called peat, which is a deposit of dead plant material (mainly sphagnum moss). Over time the moss in these bogs will die and it is replaced by new moss, however the old matter turns into what is known as ‘peat’, a thick fibrous layer. When the bog water interacts with the acids in the moss

  • Bog Mummies Research Paper

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    Bog Mummies In 1640 a bog body was discovered by a farmer in Holstein, Germany. This was possibly the first recorded instance of such a discovery, but what is a bog, how are human beings preserved in one, and how are bog mummies different from others? This essay will explain the one-of-a-kind characteristics of a bog and how all of these events can take place in one. To begin, wetlands, such as bogs, all have basic characteristics that group them together, however they still manage to maintain

  • The Bog Bodies of Northern Europe

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    On the morning of May 3, 1983, an eight year old Irish boy named Sean O’Leary wandered around a peat bog, accompanying his father who worked nearby in the fields. He was completely clueless to the secrets the mud was holding. As he explored the bog he encountered upon what he claimed was a forgotten toy. Once home when presented the object to his father, they realized the “forgotten toy” was a cadaver’s hand! Unbeknownst to them, this well-preserved body part came from a body that had been buried

  • Different Theories Proposed to Account for the Iron Age Bog Bodies

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    There are numerous unanswered questions surrounding the Northern European Bog Bodies phenomenon including "How, or why, or even when, the bodies became immersed in quagmires." (Turner, R.C, Scaife, R.G (ed.),1995,p.169). Despite vast amounts of evidence there are still no easy answers that account for the Iron age bodies. However there are four main competing theories providing possible causes including: the Sacrifice theory, Punishment theory, Boundary theory and the Accidental death theory. All

  • Pollen Analysis

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    the only environments which are truly hostile to this shell are abrasion, such as may be the case on sandy sites, and oxidation. However, the most favourable conditions for preservation of the pollen record are acidic, anaerobic sites such as peat bogs. This high degree of survivability combines with another factor inherent in the nature of pollen - the large amount produced - to make pollen analysis one of the most important tools available to the archaeologist. Though one further factor in the

  • Historical Investigation on the Tollund Man

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    death. The Tollund Man was found on the 6th of May 1950 by two brothers at Silkeborg, Denmark, in a peat bog. He was positioned on his side in a cradle position, naked with a leather belt around his waist, a pointed sheepskin cap with a leather strap that was positioned firmly under his chin and a noose around his neck. The substances in the peat bog prevented the body from decomposing. The bog contains Sphagnum moss which creates acids in the water and grows a glass covering over the water blocking

  • Postmodernism in Heaney's Poems Bogland and Tollund Man

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    classical poetry. Recently, his poems are considered as postmodern. To answer that how much his poems are traditional, modern or postmodern is the aim of this project. Key Words: postmodernism, myth, imagery, technique, poetry, deadly, violence, corpse, bog, imagination, freedom. Introduction This research is a case study including discussions and analysis of two poems by Seamus Heaney, one of the postmodern poets. The poems, which are going to be analyzed, are: Bogland and The Tollund Man. In

  • Analysis: The Ghost Of The Murdered Kings

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    The Ghost of the Murdered Kings Within the last few years, bodies have been found in bogs all across Ireland and Northern Europe. PBS took us through a documentary, named “The Ghost of the Murdered Kings”, in hopes to find some missing information on these peculiar bodies. Although they weren’t just skeletons, the bodies were preserved due to the highly acidic waters and peat that grows there. Grobbel Man, Old Croghan Man, Clonycavan Man, and several more have been found by everyday farmers. One

  • The Tollund Man

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    The Tollund Man is one of Europe's best-known bog bodies. He was found, alongside The Grauballe Man in the early 1950s. Bog bodies recovered from the past are quite wide spread throughout Northern Europe, especially in Denmark, Germany and Ireland. The peat perfectly preserves the bodies due to anaerobic conditions, although the bodies are found blackened, their fingertips, hair and clothing are all still intact. Seamus Heaney uses the bog bodies in his poetry to "uncover, in their meditations

  • Discuss some of the ways in which Seamus Heaney makes use of the past

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    of Heaney returning to his origins. Heaney evokes the rural landscape where he was raised and shows the care and skill of how his Father and ancestors farmed the land ‘My father, digging’. In the poem there are many monosyllabic words such as ‘bog’, ‘sods’ and ‘curt cuts’, which is also alliteration and assonance. The colloquial term, ‘By God, the old man could handle a spade’ shows Seamus Heaney’s pride of his Grandfather. “Irishmen are justifiably well known for digging, but Heaney shows

  • How does Heaney present Religion in ‘The Tollund Man’?

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    Idolisation of the bog man in the first stanza is undermined by the fact he is “naked”, implying he is vulnerable and not important, as he is carelessly “dug” up – This lack of dignity is also seen in Strange Fruit where Heaney describes the “prune-skinned”, “leathery beauty” of the girl. His lack of power in The Tollund Man is furthered as Heaney personifies the bog as an overwhelming female “goddess” who has “tightened her torc on him” and “opened”; waiting for a sacrifice. Whilst the bog man is first

  • Tollund Man Poem Analysis

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    ” The voice becomes pitiful even indicates the sadness of the speaker. The second part of the poem dramatically shifts the previous tone as Heaney personifies the bog to Ireland and reflects the death of four Catholic brothers. The stillness of the tone suddenly shifts to agitation: “I could risk blasphemy, /Consecrate the cauldron bog” (lines 21-22). The speaker believes that violence associated with religion. The Tollund Man will not die if people don’t believe in Nerthus, and beliefs in religion

  • Summary Of Marina Carr's By The Bog Of Cats

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    Marina Carr’s By the Bog of Cats explores meaningless marriage, in a time and place where this alliance is only made for the selfish reasons of the patriarchal order. This play is set in a Bog in Ireland during the Celtic Tiger. Carthage decides to leave his daughter Josie and her Mother Hester, to marry Caroline Roy for greedy reasons. Xavier, Caroline’s father is very supportive of this marriage since it would greatly benefit the business deal he has with Carthage regarding land. Carr uses symbolism

  • What Advice Does Andy Dufresne Beat Bogs

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    first item that Andy asks Red to get was a rock hammer. 5. Why is Red worried about getting this? Red was worried about getting a rock hammer for Andy because it is dangerous tool that can be used as a weapon. 6. Why does Hadley beat bogs? Hadley beats bogs because bogs and the girls had been beating Andy up but now that the officers need Andy to launder money for them and do their taxes they wanted to protect Andy for their own advantages. 7.

  • The Importance Of Peatlands

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    Peatlands, are fens, swamps, marshes, and bogs that cover approximately 2-3% of the global land surface [5]. Peat bogs are infertile wetlands with acidic soil that contain unusual communities of plants and animals adapted to live in these conditions. Peat has high water holding capacity and stores organic carbon which has many benefits and functions to the environment. Unfortunately, wetlands are sensitive to environmental change and human impacts such as harvesting and agriculture. It is extremely

  • Analysis Of Blackberry Picking By Seamus Heaney

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    The Inner Heaney: Buried Beneath a Bog Seamus Heaney is one of the most profound and influential writers in Irish history. His poetry primarily consisted, in the beginning, of events from his childhood to his early adult years, highlighting the maturation process of that age period. His poetry changed during the Troubles of Northern Ireland, the Irish Civil Rights Movement that included terrorism from the Irish Republican Army in order to achieve emancipation from Britain, which changed to a darker

  • Julius Caesar: Human Sacrifice

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    prove to the world that the answer to the mystery of the bog bodies is human sacrifice. However, I hope that the evidence I am about to show you is enough to convince you that human sacrifice is what killed the bog bodies. It is recorded that human sacrifice was common at least 5000 years ago. Danish farmers, used to deposit their farming utensils in pots along with human sacrifices and place them in peat bogs, much like the bogs the bog bodies were found in. The earliest documentation of human

  • Funeral Rites, explore Seamus Heaney’s attitude to Death in North.

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    This close, sensory description of the body is present in many of his bog poems, but specifically in The Grauballe Man, as, similar to Funeral Rites, Heaney dedicates multiple stanzas to the direct, det... ... middle of paper ... ...rom Part One in everything from technique and tone to approach of subject matter. Whereas in Part One, Heaney addresses political issues and death through metaphors and the symbolism of the bog poems, he delivers a more direct response in Part Two, conveying his opinion

  • Seamus Heaney as a Political Poet in Act of Union

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    Heaney is not typically a political poet, with nonpartisan themes prominent in his poetry. However, he breaks this image in Act of Union, along with Whatever You Say, Say Nothing, branching into more political themes. The cause of this was largely due to the Troubles in Ireland from the early 1960s, which largely affected Heaney due to his role as a Northern Irish poet. He was also pressured by many journalists on his view, which is described in Whatever You Say, Say Nothing. Although Act of Union