Comparing Follower and Digging by Seamus Heany

... Comparing ' Follower ' and ' Digging ' The title ' Follower ' intrigues curiosity for what the poem is about, and what is doing the following. This poem, the ' Follower ', is about the writer looking up to his father whilst he ploughs some land, and how the roles have changed. The title ' Digging ' is quite plain, and unusual for a poem, which in a way would intrigue the reader to see what the poem was about. ' Digging ' is about the writer looking out of his window and seeing his father digging, then reminiscing about his grandfather digging. Both these titles intrigue the reader, because they are one word titles. The ' Follower ' contains imagery that use the writer's perspective as a child, like referring to his father's shoulders as ' a full said strung between the shafts and the furrow '. This might have

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