Follower by Seamus Heaney

... It is a beautiful Spring day. The poet father is ploughing a field with a team of horses. The wind catches his shirt and it billows like a sail. The son watches his father carefully as he works, noticing every detail. He wants to be like his father, to grow up and plough fields with the same skill and ease. However, now that he is a man he realises that at the time he must have been a dreadful nuisance to his father while he worked. In the end he did not grow up to work the land like his father. And now, as an adult, their roles are reversed: it is his father who follows and stumbles behind him. Follower is a poem about the poet love and admiration for his father. It is also about the changes that occur between parents and children as children move out from their

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