Compare the way the relationships between members of different generations are presented in the 'Follower', 'Baby-Sitting' and 'On My First Sonne' and 'The Affliction of Margaret'.

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Compare the way the relationships between members of different generations are presented in the 'Follower', 'Baby-Sitting' and 'On My First Sonne' and 'The Affliction of Margaret'. Write about:

* What the relationships between generations are like in the poems

* The ways in which the relationships are similar and different

* The methods the poets use to show what the relationships are like

* Which of the poems you like best and why

Follower, Baby-Sitting, On My First Sonne and The Affliction of Margaret all show a parent/child relationship. The relationship between these two generations is stressed by the poets in various ways including the ways that the younger member 'stumbles' and 'falls'.

In 'Follower', By Seamus Heaney, Heaney writes about the way that a son follows his father who works on a horse plough. The relationship between the young and the old in this poem is reasonably simple - the younger person (the son) is portrayed as weak and young (typical view of a child) and he often falls down. The boy is compared to the father - the boy is said to be clumsy, whilst the father is masterful - these are