Compare Heaney's presentation of his father in 'Digging' and the 'Follower'. Analyse the techniques used to communicate his ideas both of himself and his father.

... Compare Heaney's presentation of his father in 'Digging' and the 'Follower'. Analyse the techniques used to communicate his ideas both of himself and his father. The two poems 'Digging' and 'Follower' are very similar. As evidence both poems refer to the earth and the different job that are related with the earth. 'Digging' is about Heaney digging into his memories about his father and grandfather. 'Follower' is ambiguous as Heaney followed his father literally and metaphorically in his memory. In both of the poems the child compares himself to his father and grandfather. There are several developed metaphors that compare the father and his work to the ocean in the 'Follower': "His shoulders globed like a full sail strung" Heaney looks at his father from a child's point of view as children see everything as being bigger than them. The quotation is a reference to the father's shoulders being large like the billowing sail

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