"An old mans winter night" by Robert Frost and "Follower" by Seamus Heaney

... Poetry Coursework From reading the 2 poems "An old mans winter night" by Robert Frost and "Follower" by Seamus Heaney we can se that both of the poets have there own different ideas and opinions on old age. Follower - This poem has a very direct title which intices the audience to find out more and is very similar to that of a Hollywood movie and uses plain language. From the 1st line we can see the boy's possessiveness of his father from the words "My" we also know it is referring to the past from the tense of the word "worked" we also find out that he works on a farm. In the next 3 lines we can see the poets admiration for his father by the way he talks about the size of the man "globed like a full sail strung" and his strength. We see that his father was

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