Comparing Two Poems - Follower and Digging

... Patrick Weaver 10.3 Poems written by Seamus Heaney Comparing Two Poems Follower and Digging In this poem "Follower" the voice is that of the Son. He is speaking about his father who he looks up to and admires. The poem starts with the lines "My father worked with a horse-plough, his shoulders globed like a full sail strung". The image given to us immediately is that of a large piece of machinery controlled by a large a powerful man. We are told his shoulders are like a "full sail strung", straight away I think of I large yacht sailing at great speed across the world nothing can stop it. I think that the son is trying to portray this; therefore he has used the wording to great affect. The next significant line say's "The horses strained at his clicking tongue". The idea of these great beasts straining with effort to the command of their

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