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... Themes in Death of a Naturalist In the early book of poetry Death of a Naturalist, several themes reoccur in Seamus Heaney's poems. The poems "Follower" and "Digging" show that although we might admire our parents' qualities, we cannot always lead similar lives to theirs. In "Follower" Heaney demonstrates his profound regard towards his father's work in the image "his eye narrowed and angled at the ground, mapping the furrow exactly" because it thoroughly describes how meticulous the father was at farming. Also, Heaney actually states that he desires to be as skilled and strong as his father, "I wanted to grow up and plough, to close one eye, stiffen my arm" but reveals frustration since he knows that he's incapable. The line "all I ever did was follow" also reveals Heaney's realization that he is incapable of being a farmer but can only follow his father. In addition, in the
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