In the two poems, follower and Digging Seamus Heaney paints vivid, sensuous descriptions of his childhood memories of rural, Irish life. His language is often onomatopoeic as he describes the "

... English Essay Comparing the poems the Follower and Digging In the two poems, follower and Digging Seamus Heaney paints vivid, sensuous descriptions of his childhood memories of rural, Irish life. His language is often onomatopoeic as he describes the "The Horses strained at his clicking tongue" from the Follower and "the squelch and slap of soggy peat" In the poem Digging. In this essay I will be comparing the two poems Follower and Digging, which are both written by Seamus Heaney, hopefully this will reveal certain styles of writing the poet uses, and how they are both related to one another. Seamus Heaney's relationship to his family and the rural world in which he was born are exposed in both poems. In the poem Digging he memorialises the cycles of manual labour on his family's farm - "digging up potatoes" and "cutting turf on the bog". At some point this seems hardly the

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