DISCUSS THE "FOLLOWER" BY SEAMUS HEANEY,.
The poem, "Follower," by Seamus Heaney, is quite poignant in developing certain themes, by way of the techniques employed. Heaney writes the, "Follower", as part of his childhood and his experiences and feelings at the time and after. The ideas that time changes all, brings forth a loss in the innocence of childhood. Also he comments upon the instincts present within us and the views, which the poet sees in hindsight of following his father, both literally and metaphorically. The poet details these ideas within the poem, by way of his language and various other techniques. This essay will discuss the significance of the form and structure used, the diction, the metaphorical language and images dealt with as a result and the how they relates with the poet's ideas. .
There are several extended images and metaphor's employed by the poet, Heaney to show his various ideas in the, "Follower." The poet extends a nautical metaphor through the poem, to demonstrate his father's power, when he saw him through the eyes of a child. " His shoulder's globed like a full sail strung," says the poet, utilising a nautical simile to show his father's strength. He describes his father with billowed muscly shoulders and "globed," as sails in full wind, with the " sails strung," to stress his father's straining sinew. This description of his father, was used by the poet to perhaps emphasise not that he was a simple farmer, but that he was a highly skilled man in his prime, to mirror his motion to the beauty of a sail in its fullest. These nautical references are developed further, by the images of the "sod roll[ing] over without breaking," as by the waves of an ocean and to the child when he stumbles, "in his . wake,", "dipping and rising," as too suggest the sailing of a ship through the waves. The father is then described as, "Mapping the furrow exactly," as to relate his precision ploughing to the, "exact," navigation of a ship and furthermore the rut of concentration upon his father's careful mind.
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