Question

write a poem in about 100 words of your own ​

Answer 1

Answer:

Follower is a poem that focuses on the relationship between father and son, shifting in perspective from past to present, giving the reader an insight into a son's reaction to the passing of time and that same father grown old.

It is an autobiographical poem that throws light on the speaker's observations as a child and the influence of the father as he worked the land with the child following. There is a deep but almost hidden respect for the father, acknowledged as an expert.

First published in 1966 in the book Death of a Naturalist, Follower is one of many early poems Heaney wrote about his family and in particular his father. Most of these finely crafted poems are based in the farmlands and peaty boglands of County Derry, where the poet was born and raised.

Follower is a straightforward lyrical poem and is an excellent example of Heaney's use of rural language within a controlled syntax that is full of long and short vowels, contrasting consonants and varied rhythms.

Throughout there is the quality of keen observation and a quiet depth of purpose. The reader is placed directly alongside the speaker, into the field being furrowed, into the mind of a child now facing life as a man, and the frustrating reversal of roles.

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