Compare the different ways in which Heaney presents different ideas about his relationship with his farther in his poetry.

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Compare he different ways in which Heaney presents different ideas about his relationship with his farther in his poetry

In this essay I have tried to compare the different ways in which Heaney shows his relationship with his farther. I have used two different poems to compare this, ‘Follower’ and ‘Boy driving his farther to confession’. Both poems give more than one view, and each poem has a very different view from the other.

        

As soon as you start reading ‘follower’ you are clearly shown that Heaney admire his fathers strength.

‘His shoulders globed like a full sail strung’        

This gives the impression of Heaney’s father having a huge gaping back, as the sails on ships are usually very large. Heaney uses admiring words like ‘globed’ to describe his fathers shoulders, this gives the impression of big nicely rounded huge muscles, which have built up from his hard work on the farm. Heaney obviously sees his father out to be a kind of superman, a person so strong they could lift a building.

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In the middle of the poem Heaney shows himself out to be quite hopeless, and his dad to be amasing. He uses very contrasting words to show the big difference between them.

        ‘I stumbled in his hob-nailed wake, fell sometimes on the polished sod’

This shows Heaney to be behind his dad, trying very hard to keep up but can’t, but then Heaney goes on to say that ‘sometimes he rode me on his back’. This, still showing Heaney’s dad to be the more stronger of the two, shows him out to be very caring of his son, helping ...

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