Personal Helicon (Related Text)

[ericazzz]

Hey,

So I've decided to choose Personal Helicon by Seamus Heaney as a potential related text for Discovery. However, I have some trouble trying to find aspects and techniques of it that relate to:
'the ramifications of particular discoveries may differ for individuals and their worlds' and
'an individual’s discoveries and their process of discovering can vary according to personal, cultural, historical and social contexts and values'.

Any help would be greatly appreciated,
Thanks

[elysepopplewell]

Hey,

So I've decided to choose Personal Helicon by Seamus Heaney as a potential related text for Discovery. However, I have some trouble trying to find aspects and techniques of it that relate to:
'the ramifications of particular discoveries may differ for individuals and their worlds' and
'an individual’s discoveries and their process of discovering can vary according to personal, cultural, historical and social contexts and values'.

Any help would be greatly appreciated,
Thanks

Hey there! I studied this in Year 11 and very much enjoyed it, and I have a friend who used this for her related text in 2015 for discovery. It served her well!
The text doesn't focus on another human being, so it will be difficult to relate it to different individuals in a comparative way, but by linking to the second part of the rubric you've mentioned there, you could look at the way the Irish landscape was intensely meaningful to the way Heaney discovered things, and consequently realised his own poetry. Heaney's personal context will be important for you here in addressing that second part of the rubric you've mentioned - the personal, cultural, and social contexts and values are understood more clearly when you know about Heaney's upbringing, experiences of the poetic landscape in Ireland (as very much shaped by W B Yeats), and the values of that serenity. I suggest doing some reading on Heaney in the Irish environment. Personal context of the author isn't super featured in discovery often because the pieces typically aren't as autobiographical as this one is - but it is very very relevant here.