Poetry Comparason of "Follower", by Seamus Heany and "The lesson" by Edward Lucie-Smith.

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Poetry Comparason

In this essay iam going to describe in detail two poems, "Follower", by

Seamus Heany and " The lesson" by Edward Lucie-Smith. Firstly, Iam going

to talk about both poems, going to name the similes, ryme, etc, and then

do a comparison between the two poems.

First Poem: "Follower". It is a poem in which describes older

age. Its the story of a kid who admires the job of his father, and loves

how he can dominate his job easily. The kid was always "stumbling"

behind his father. Later in poem, the kid has grown up, and its his

father "stumbling" behind him.

Now I am going to name the literary resources. The poem "Follower", has

5 verses, with 4 lines each. The poem is writen in 1st person, as the

cuild is speaking. In the first verse, we can find out a description, of

the boys's father fisically. We get an impression of his kind of work in

the first line of the first verse, " My father worked with a horse-

plough". As I said before, the first verse gives a fisical description
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aswell, of the father, there is a metafor in line 2, in the first verse,

to explain how his shoulders where strong, "His shoulders globed like a

full sail strung", after this metaphor, we can know a fisical aspect of

the father (more or less), tall, strong. We also see the presence of

rhyme in the first verse, line 2, rhymes with line 4,

"-His shoulders globed like a full sail strung.

-The horses strained at his clicking tongue".

In the 4th line on first verse, ...

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