In his poems 'Follower and Digging' Heaney is thinking about his father. How do these two poems give you different ideas about his relationship with his father?

... In his poems 'Follower and Digging' Heaney is thinking about his father. How do these two poems give you different ideas about his relationship with his father? Rachel Burrow In the two poems, 'Digging' and 'Follower', Seamus Heaney writes about growing up on his father's farm, in County Derry, in Ireland. I am going to compare and contrast, remembered and present day, feelings Heaney has about his relationship with his father. The poem 'Follower' tells us about Heaney's admiration for his father and how he wants to grow up to plough just like him. He observes how his father tends to the farm, but how Heaney is never allowed to do much. He cannot wait for the day when he is old enough to work the farm, in the skilled way he has watched his father do. At the end of 'Follower,' Heaney explains how his relationship with his father

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