the tollund man

• themes

  • Irish history and culture
  • self discovery
  • death
  • history and the past
  • identity
  • man and the natural world
  • war and conflict
  • religion
  • myth and folklore
• ‘someday I will go’ 

  personal poem
• ‘opened her fen’ ‘dark juices’

  sexual imagery
• ‘Peat brown’ ‘mild pods’

  connection to the earth
• ‘Sad freedom’


  oxymoron
• ‘Cap, noose and girdle’


   tricolon, highlights the nakedness and violence of his death