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Explore Heaney's themes and poetic technique in 'Digging' and 'Follower'.
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... Explore Heaney's themes and poetic technique in 'Digging' and 'Follower'. In this essay I'm going to explain the themes and poetic technique in the poems 'Follower' and 'Digging', both written by Seamus Heaney. They're both taken from the book 'Death of a Naturalist' (1966) The poem 'Follower' begins with an image of Heaney's father working in the field 'with a horse-plough'. The description: His shoulders globed like a full sail strung Between the shafts and the furrow. Is very clever, as it is elegant and powerful. It's elegant because of the image of his father 'like a full sail' whilst the plough is his ship. It conjures pictures of great ships that would have been sailed by Sir Farces Drake would sail across the sea, these ships were beautiful and moved slowly and gracefully - this is the image given of Heaney's father. It's a powerful image because of the strength of the "ship" and
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