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1			Have you ever witnessed someone being punished or scolded in public? How did it make you feel? Did reading "Punishment" remind you of that incident? What does the speaker of the poem say about how he would have responded to the woman's punishment?
2			Click here to hear Heaney reading "The Tollund Man," another poem about the "Bog People" from North. Did you notice anything unusual about his voice? Did it match the voice in your imagination? How did it differ?