Which two of the following poems by Seamus Heaney come under his Bog Poems?

(A) Personal Helicon
(B) Punishment
(C) The Early Purges
(D) Tollund Man

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct option is D

Explanation:
Punishment is one of Heaney's Bog Poems. It reflects on the ritual sacrifices in Iron Age bogs, drawing parallels to contemporary violence in Northern Ireland.
Tollund Man is a quintessential Bog Poem. It describes a well-preserved body found in a Danish bog and uses it as a metaphor to explore historical violence and cultural memory.
These Bog Poems delve into the intersection of history, ritual, and violence, often inspired by discoveries of ancient bodies in bogs.

Information Booster:

About Seamus Heaney (1939–2013):
Irish poet and Nobel laureate.
Renowned for blending the personal, historical, and political in his works.

Seamus Heaney's Bog Poems:
Found mainly in the collections Wintering Out (1972) and North (1975).
Inspired by the preserved bodies found in European bogs.
The poems use bog bodies as symbols to comment on human sacrifice, political conflict, and cultural memory.
Themes in Bog Poems:
Sacrifice and violence.
Interplay between ancient rituals and contemporary issues (e.g., the Troubles in Northern Ireland).
Preservation of history through natural processes.

North (1975): Four poems in this volume—"Bog Queen," "The Grauballe Man," "Punishment," and "Strange Fruit"—are inspired by bog remains. Heaney first published his bog-body poetry "Tollund Man" in his earlier book, Wintering Out. After reading PV Glob's book, The Bog People, which is an archeological analysis of Iron-Age bodies found in Northern European bogs, Heaney was moved to pen these poems. Writing poetry had changed for Heaney "from being simply a matter of achieving the satisfactory verbal icon to being a search for images and symbols adequate to our predicament" at the time he discovered this book, as he recounts in his essay "Feeling Into Words." Heaney writes, "And the unforgettable photographs of these victims blended in my mind with photographs of atrocities, past and present, in the long rites of Irish political and religious struggles." Glob's book's bog bodies became such icons for Heaney.[4] Heaney makes links between the past and present in these poems.

Wintering out (1972): One of Heaney's most significant bog poems can also be found in Wintering Out. Heaney develops the concept of the bog in "Tollund Man," which he first presents in Door into the Dark's "Bogland." P.V. Glob's research on the mummified Iron Age bodies discovered in the peat bogs of Jutland profoundly affected Heaney. Bogs were a common sight in Northern Ireland, and Heaney saw the artifacts of the ceremonial murders as having current political significance.

Additional Knowledge:
Personal Helicon is from Heaney’s debut collection Death of a Naturalist (1966). It reflects on the poet’s childhood fascination with wells and does not belong to the Bog Poems.
The Early Purges is also from Death of a Naturalist. It deals with themes of rural life and childhood innocence, not the Bog Poems.