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What do we learn from digging and follower about Seamus Heaney’s relationship with his father?
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... What do we learn from digging and follower about Seamus Heaney's relationship with his father? From the poem 'follower' I have learnt that Heaney's relationship with his father changed dramatically from when he was boy to the present time. As a boy heaney obviously admired his father and wanted to be just like him when he grew up he would watch his father at work and follow him around asking questions because he was interested and did not understand what his father was doing, I would imagine that he caused quite a nuisance to his father. however now heaney feels differently about his father and considers him to be the nuisance following him around asking questions about what he is doing because he do's not understand. I think we learn more from the poem 'digging' about how 'heaney' once felt about his father than we do in 'follower'. I think that
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