Choose two or more poems by Seamus Heaney. Write an informed and personal response to these poems in which you compare their subject matter and its awareness of the poet's use of language and poetic devices. Refer to the poems to support your viewpoints!

... Choose two or more poems by Seamus Heaney. Write an informed and personal response to these poems in which you compare their subject matter and its awareness of the poet's use of language and poetic devices. Refer to the poems to support your viewpoints! I have chosen to compare and contrast "Follower" and "Digging" by the poet Seamus Heaney, a local man from the town of Bellaghy in County Derry. I selectively chose these two poems for they are very visual and are both related to each other. The poem "Follower" consists of six quatrains with regular versification and an alternate rhyme scheme which creates a very solid structure. It is about Seamus Heaney as a young boy and about his relationship with him and his father. "My father worked with a horse-plough" is the introductory line of the first stanza of the poem, "Follower." This simple opening line portrays what the poem

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