Poetry Comparason of "Follower", by Seamus Heany and "The lesson" by Edward Lucie-Smith.
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
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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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, "The horses strained at his clicking
tongue", we know from the first verse, that the father works with
horses. Here the child tells us that he can control the horses with the
click of his tongue, no need to pull of the reigns. In the second verse
we can see many important quotes.Images such as "An expert" are quite
different, but they are also useful. It tells us what Heaney's father is
like as a ploughman, and it helps us to understand that working on the
farm is not easy, and some of the necessary skills take a long time
learn. In the 3rd line of the 2nd verse, "The sod rolled over without
breaking", tells us how hard it is to work on land, but also, how good
this childs father does it, he can roll the sod perfectly without
breaking.
On the 3rd verse, i find the least literary resources . There is rhyme,
and an important meaning of a verse. The rhyme in this verse is on the
line 1, and line 3
"Of reins, the sweating team turned round
-Narrowed the angled at the ground"
On the last line of the 3rd verse "Mapping the furrow exactly", gives as
the impression of his father as an expert, again. He is good enough to
make the furrows in straight lines, and perfectly.
The last three verses are the most important to me. Its when we get the
final conclusion to this poem. "I stumbled in his hob-nailed wake",
again we get this falling behind him impression, in which the child is
behind his father, trying to keep up with his fathers rythm.Also, again
we get an impression of a good work done in line 2, verse 3, " Fell
sometimes on the polished sod", the child falls on good soil. Another
way the author made his father look very strong in line 3 verse
4, "Sometimes he rode me on his back".
The child admires his father a lot, he wants to grow up and be a farmer
like his father, "I want to grow up and plough", "To close one eye and
stiffen my arm", this verse gives us a special meaning, even though its
not the most important for the development of the poem, but gives us a
feeling of accuaracy, that the child wants to put on his work. The poem
is called the follower because its the child behind his father,
describing how he does his job, "All i ever did was follow, In his broad
shadow round the farm"
We can detect rhyme again in verse 5 lines, 2 and 3:
" To close one eye, stiffen my arm
-In his broad shadow round the farm"
Last verse is the most important, when the child grows up, and then its
his father who stumbles, and follows him "In his broad shadow round the
farm"
"I was a nuisance, tripping, falling
Yapping always, But today
It is my father who keeps stumbling
Behind me, and i will not go away."
In this verse, there is a meaning for every verse, essential for the
conclusion of this poem and rhyme.
Line 2, rhymes with line 4, "today, away". There is a jump in time in
the 2nd line, when the child grew up, and his father is in old age.
Now Iam going to describe the poem, The lesson.
The poem the lesson, is about a kid, which father dies, when he is at a
bording school. Aparently, by the looks of the poem, he was bullied, and
hated school.
Here is my poem analysis.
This poem is divided in 2 verses, of 8 lines.
"Your father's gone, my bald headmaster said", this first line gives us
the way in which the child remembers his headmaster, bold, and not very
nice, this is the kind of way children seem to remember things.