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Seamus Heaney's early poetry reflect historical or political events and traditional crafts in the Nothern Ireland catholic community. Also, he emphasized that he identified with the craftsmen who created or fixed something in his community. But in Field Work, Heaney's fifth book, his poetic style changed. His new poetic style showed the anxiety about the conflict between responsibility for the community and the freedom of poetry in his mind. The doubts and questions on what role poetry has in history are condensed in Field Work and especially in the six elegies. In the next book, Station Island, Heaney pilgrimaged emblematically to meet and discuss with ghosts that were killed by sectarian murder through the sequence, "Station Island." In the last chapter of this sequence, Heaney met the ghost of James Joyce and he advised Heaney that he should write poetry with his own style. After accepting Joyce's advice, Heaney flew towards the freedom of poetry, or "door into the light" never forgetting the Nothern Ireland catholic community.