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Compare and contrast the poems "Digging" and "Follower".
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... Seamus Heaney Compare and contrast the poems "Digging" and "Follower". Seamus Heaney was born on the 13th of April 1939 in County Derry Northern Ireland. He began to write from Phillip Hobsbaum advice. He married Marie Devlin in 1965. His first published work was a poetry book called Death of a naturalist Both Digging and Follower are nostalgic poem, which express Heaney's childhood memories and experiences. Both of these poems use a simple language, this makes it easy for the reader to understand and relate to. He expresses it both in an adult and a child point of view. Both Digging and Follower have ambiguous meanings. 'Digging' has ambiguous meaning of his father and his grandfather digging and a meaning of himself digging as well, but he is metaphorically digging into his mind. 'Follower' have ambiguous meaning of Heaney following his father when he was young and his father following him
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