The poet Seamus Heaney was a man who knew a thing or two about his heritage. He wrote solid lyrical poems about his rural Northern Irish childhood. Born in 1939, the province had changed very little in modernisation from the earlier decades.
In his poem “Digging”, he writes about the incredible skill and ability that his father and grandfather had with a spade. Heaney then laments that he doesn’t have the same skill. What he does have is a pen. He notes that it is held firmly in his hand, much like the firmness of his forebears with the spade in theirs. He ends the poem with the line “I’ll dig with it”, meaning that he will use the pen and his skill with words to create the same sense of hard work and satisfaction as his father and grandfather.
What is the modern equivalent of this? Heaney wrote the poem in 1966, when the pen and pencil were still the primary way people recorded words and thoughts. In our modern times, which Heaney saw, living as he did in 2013, perhaps we are more inclined to “dig” with laptops. But, like the spade, they need to be kept in good order, and Laptop repair Gloucester based company www.cotswoldcomputermedic.co.uk/laptop-repair-gloucester/ can help with that.
With the pandemic lockdowns, the laptop became a lifesaver for business and communications. Working from home became the norm, and loved ones could be spoken to on WhatsApp and Teams face to face. Games could be played, even as a group. The development of computer equipment will only continue to grow in the future.