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... Compare "Follower" and "Digging" In the both poems Heaney reveals that he has an agricultural background running through his family, in "follower" he only talks about his father's generation being a father and in "digging" he talks about himself, his father and his grand father being diggers. In both poems the author talks about himself watching his past generations farming and explains that they are very skilled. Both poems are very alike in some ways like these, but for example in "Follower" Heaney says that the boy was always a nuisance to his father "tripping, falling, yapping always." On the other hand, in "digging" the boys talks about his father and grandfather how they are so skilled, but he seems to appreciate their skills and look up to them but he wants to follow something different in life, " but I've no spade to follow men like them, Between my finger
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