Heaney explains how the bog is part of the environment he was born into.
While giving a reading at the Dublin Arts Festival in 1972, Heaney explains to the audience how the bog is part of the environment he was born into. He tells how the etymology of the place-name Mossbawn (his family farm) would be interpreted differently by the two traditions in Northern Ireland.
Introducing the poem 'Bogland', he talks of the bog becoming symbolic of a consciousness that retains and observes.
