Helen Vendler Critical Analysis
Helen Vendler’s early piece reflects her important and crucial take on contemporary poetry. In itself, the introduction demonstrates some level of complexity and subtlety. It encompasses elements that pertain to the challenges that poets like Seamus Heaney tend to face in middle age and the values that were seen in their older writing style start to fail. Meaningful elements include metaphorical hints, such as stating that Heaney’s work is an





