Personal Helicon

• What is the poem about?

  The process of Heaney writing a poem and how/where he gets his inspiration.
• How does the title lead an insight into what the poem's about?

  'Helicon' is a Greek mountain and is mythologically home to 9 muses (source of inspiration for creativity), suggesting that Heaney's personal source of inspiration is rooted in his own experiences of the natural world.