" That poem appears in the same collection as a poem whose speaker ends up "among people far too eager to believe me and my story, even if it happened to be true.
The speaker of a poem named after this figure compares himself to "a scout at risk behind lines who raises his head in a wheatfield to take a first look." That poem appears in the same collection as a poem whose speaker ends up "among people far too eager to believe me and my story, even if it happened to be true." The latter poem is named after this figure "redivivus" and is from Station Island. The author of those works, Seamus Heaney, also translated the original poem about this figure, resulting in a work titled after this figure "astray." In another poem, "the zebra stripes along" this figure's jaw are "swelling to maculate giraffe."  An unfinished verse drama about this figure with a title echoing that of a Milton work was written by the author of a poem which describes him as "apeneck." For 10 points, name this mad king of Irish myth who was placed "among the nightingales" by T. S. Eliot.
The speaker of a poem named after this figure compares himself to "a scout at risk behind lines who raises his head in a wheatfield to take a first look.
Sweeney