作为生活在20世纪后半叶的北爱尔兰诗人,谢默斯·希尼承受着比其他地区和时代的诗人更严酷的生存和美学考验,这当然源于北爱尔兰所独有的历史的、政治的、文化的、经济的冲突和悖论,这种冲突在当时北爱尔兰很多地方甚至直接演变成了持续20年的集体暴力冲突。北爱尔兰几乎变成了游离于欧洲文明之外的人类苦难的一个标本。 As a Northern Irish poet living in the second half of the twentieth century, Shemish Sinny was harsher than the harsh survival and aesthetic tests of poets in other regions and times, of course, stemming from Northern Ireland’s unique history, politics Cultural, and economic conflicts and paradoxes that even directly evolved into a 20-year collective violence conflict in many parts of Northern Ireland at the time. Northern Ireland has almost become a specimen of human suffering that is free from European civilization.