Compare the ways Heaney writes about people and the natural world in 'Digging' and 'At the Potato Digging'. Go on to explain ways in which this theme is presented in any two of the Pre-1914 poems.

... Compare the ways Heaney writes about people and the natural world in 'Digging' and 'At the Potato Digging'. Go on to explain ways in which this theme is presented in any two of the Pre-1914 poems. The main similarity about 'Digging' and 'At a Potato Digging' is that they are obviously, both about digging. But 'Digging' is about the writer's memories of his 'old man' and how well he could 'Digging'. The poem, 'At a Potato Digging' is about the potato famine. We know the writer in 'Digging' feels comfortable with his pen. He tells us it rests 'snug as a gun' in between his fingers. Later on in the poem, we find out how at home his father and grand-father were with a spade. He tells us how he admired them 'stooping in rhythm through potato drills'. It is similar to 'At a Potato Digging', by the way it

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