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What does Heaney reveal about his attitudeto his past in the poems I have studied?
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... What does Heaney reveal about his attitude to his past in the poems I have studied? Seamus Heaney is a very well known Irish naturalist poet and the poems that I have read of his mainly focus on his past, and the farming traditions in his family. In this essay I am going to use the two poems 'Digging' and 'Follower' to discuss what Heaney reveals about his attitude towards his past. The poem 'Digging' has a very tight structure, which Heaney uses to talk in detail about his father. "An expert. He would set the wing And fit the bright steel-pointed sock The sod rolled over without breaking" This quote clearly shows that the poem has an A, B rhyme which reflects the steady rhythm of the digging itself. Using rhyme in this poem almost echoes the sound when 'the spade sinks into the gravely ground.' Heaney then changes to free verse in the
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