After reading the two poems Digging and Follower, discuss the relationship that Heaney writes about between himself and his father.

... Seamus Heaney After reading the two poems Digging and Follower, discuss the relationship that Heaney writes about between himself and his father. I am going to compare two different poems written by Seamus Heaney. The names of these two poems are "Digging" and "Follower". Both of these poems were written when Seamus Heaney had started his career in poetry. Heaney was the eldest of nine children and grew up in poor conditions, as his father was a potato farmer, just as his forefathers. The poems are basically Heaney's autobiography, where he is explaining what happened in his past. Heaney was born when there were Catholic and Protestant riots were occurring and it was a troubled time for him and his family. The two poems are similar because they both describe Heaney at a young age, when he used to be "tripping, falling, yapping always". This was meant to prove that Heaney

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