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Nil Aon Ni translation?!

  • 14-06-2010 10:43pm
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    Registered Users Posts: 1,586 ✭✭✭


    Just realized I missed out on this poem,and I hear its tipped to come up! Could anyone just give me the gist of it?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 193 ✭✭chillian17


    Not exactly a translation but I hope this helps:

    Themes
    • Beauty of the place
    • Birthplace of the poet
    • It encourages inflow poetry
    • Contrast between Donegal and Dublin
    Poetry Techniques
    Images
    • Clapsholas thrushes
    • Tin pail sky
    • Dublin Valley Siolastrach
    • Verbs flourishing
    • Bluebells
    • Balscóideacha towns Brúch
    • Traffic noise
    • Mountain Ciúnchónaí
    • The coming of night fog
    Names
    • Music and drama
    • Empathy his birthplace of poet
    • Sounds peaceful
    • Local personal taste:
      Cashel Na Cor
      Inishbofin
      Dublin Glen
      Golden Slope
      Smooth the Branch
    Fuaimfhoclaíocht
    Quiet peaceful atmosphere:
    • Long vowels
    • Sound soft "s"
    • Meet the gcloigíní
    • I
    And compound adjectives with fresh interest
    • To say much in few words:
      clapsholas thrushes
      Mountain ciúnchónaí
    Contrast
    • Between the sounds rough and soft musical sounds
    • Contrast to hear:
      The city - repeating the harsh sound "ch" and the explosive consonant "b"
      the countryside - long vowels tsuaimhnis atmosphere;
    Meadaracht
    • Saorvéarsaíocht
    • Comhfhuaim between line a line c
    Feelings
    • Love for nature
    • Love for the quiet of the area
    • Love for his native place
    • Love the other person for Dublin
    Taken from skool.ie. http://www.skoool.ie/skoool/examcentre_sc.asp?id=3784


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,900 ✭✭✭Eire-Dearg


    Any questions on this will be contrast between Donegal and Dublin, and the lovely images and feeling he puts into it. Something about "clapsolas" and all that....


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