“Follower” is also a poem written by “Seamus heany”. This poem describes how his father ploughs through the field with his horse. How he tugs on the reins and is leading the hoarse by clicking his tongue. He writes about when he was small, his dad lets him rise on the horse when he just followed behind. He wanted to grow up and plough, he says his dad” closes one eye, stiffens his arm” this means to close one eye to see the furrow and stiffens his arm to push the plough. But all he did is follow in his dad’s shadow. At the end Seamus says” I was a nuisance, tripping, falling, now his dad is the one who stumble and is behind him and wont go away”, because he is old and is deteriorating , he compared him with his dad.
Follower is four short lined stanzas. It has rhyming sentences every two lines. It has short sentences that make it very tense and a fast pace... It doesn’t have rhythm but some near rhyme in the way you pronounce it. “Follower” has quick paced sentences and the sounds put a picture into your head. This is what makes it a good poem.
Digging uses three out of five senses, it uses sight touch and sound.
“Under my window a clean rasping sound when the spade sips into the gravely ground”, it contains sound and touch (texture). It gives the effect of a shovel hitting the ground and crumbling and mashing the floor as the spade goes in. “the cold smell of potato mould”. The poet describes it on a wet day; it wasn’t one of his favourite memories, but one which he will always remember. It gives a visual effect of green fluffy potatoes in the cold wet mud.
Seamus must have been in a happy mood yet bored. Because he reminisces about the past. The poet must have wanted to remember the thoughts forever or share his feeling with other people without actually telling them. He loved his dad and admired him, but became a poet instead, his relationship with his dad is a loving one and they bond a lot on the farm. He really loves faming and wishes he could go back to his dad but he chose to write instead.
I though “Seamus heany” put all his feelings and heart into his poems, it tells you even the simplest of things and yuckiest, it will still be enjoyed. It made me feel happy because it made me remember my child hood and what I did like playing in the sand made me happy and I looked up to my dad when he was working. It brings joy to people who read it and is a good poem.
BY CRAIG.P