How does Heaney show his interest in Irish farming and his love for nature in "Follower" and "Rookery"?

... Seamus Heaney - Poetry How does Heaney show his interest in Irish farming and his love for nature in "Follower" and "Rookery"? Seamus Justin Heaney is a Northern Irish poet and writer. He was born on April 13 1939. He was from a farming background, like his father Patrick Heaney and his ancestors. Heaney writes about the country and nature. The poem "Follower" shows Heaney's relationship with his father and the dignity of ploughing in rural Ireland. However, "Rookery" concentrates more upon nature. Heaney shows his love for rooks and their behaviour. Heaney starts stanza one of "Follower" by describing his father as the expert ploughman. He uses an excellent simile to show how the farmer has big shoulders and wind fills his shirt like a sail: "My father worked with a horse-plough, His shoulders globed like a full sail strung." Heaney's father had all the horses to do the hard, manual work for him, as it

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