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Question
How does Heaney compare the past and present in the poem?
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Solution
Heaney contrasts the present-day harvest, with its machinery and plentiful food, with the famine of 1845, when blighted potatoes caused starvation. The final scene of workers eating links the present to the past while reminding readers not to forget it.
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Chapter 11: At a Potato Digging - Exercise [Page 80]
