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Examine 'Follower' and 'Digging.' Discuss the relationship shown in the poems between Heaney and his father.
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... Pete Mortimer 7th July 2003 Heaney Assignment Examine 'Follower' and 'Digging.' Discuss the relationship shown in the poems between Heaney and his father. Heaney's relationship with his father becomes apparent as the two poems go on. The first poem 'Follower' is when Heaney is a young boy and is aloud to go with his father on a days work. The purpose was to mention when he was with his father, he just followed him around the farm, desperate to learn and to eventually take over the role of his father; "I wanted to grow up and plough!" He believes that imitating his father's actions will enable him to take over the role, although he learns how skilled the work is. He is constantly saying how he admires his father. He states how he got in the way and was constantly falling over, "I was a nuisance, tripping, falling, yapping always." However in the second poem














