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Follower and Digging By Seamus Heaney - What do we learn about Seamus Heaneys attitude to his father in the two poems?
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... GCSE ASSIGNMENT: "Follower" and "Digging" By Seamus Heaney What do we learn about Seamus Heaney's attitude to his father in the two poems? Seamus Heaney was born on 13 April 1939 in county Derry, Northern Ireland. He grew up in a farm and was one of the nine children. He is well educated, having attained a first English at Queen's college, Belfast.Heaney now has become one of the famous poets. The poet poems writes are often taken place in Ireland. The poems that I am going to compare in the following text, are "Follower" and "Digging. These two poems are also set in Ireland and are both about his father. Seamus Heaney was an adult when he wrote the poems "Digging" and "Follower". Seamus Heaney has put time shifts in the poem but not exactly in the same positions. In the poem "Follower" Seamus Heaney starts with the past tense. ("My father worked













