Analyse the poem "Digging" by the contemporary Irish poet Seamus Heaney.

... Digging I am going to analyse the poem "Digging" by the contemporary Irish poet Seamus Heaney. Travelling on from Heaney's first poem "Follower", this poem is about Heaney as a young man, making a decision about his future. It shows his admiration for his family's traditional occupation, digging, and he compares it with his own vocation for writing. The poem starts and ends with the same idea, Heaney has chosen his own career path. In the first stanza, the first two lines of the poem are used to demonstrate that Heaney has decided to choose his own career path, as a writer. It is clear that Heaney feels he is very skilled with a pen and demonstrates this in the opening stanza. He uses a rhyming couplet to open the poem, which includes a metaphor; he also uses assonance "snug" and "gun" "The squat pen rests snug as a gun". In "snug as

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