write a summery on poem follower in about 100 words
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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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Summary of Follower
Follower is basically a poem of two halves, the neat, short lines a sort of mirror of ploughed fields ready for cultivation.
The first three stanzas focus on the father figure working the land with his horses, expertly creating furrows with the plough on the farm Heaney grew up on in Mossbawn.
This is the past, the speaker looking back in admiration at the way his father controlled the scene, with pluck and click, with hand, tongue and eye.
The fourth stanza changes perspective slightly. The first person 'I' enters the scene, the child, recalling just how he experienced his father's presence on the farm as they went up and down the field.
The speaker did have an urge to follow his father on to the land, to become a farmer...but didn't fulfil his childhood wants. He was in awe of his father. As a child he followed but only as a stumbler, a yapper, a tripper, a faller.
In the final stanza the turn or twist occurs. But today...the reader is thrown forwards into the present only to discover that the speaker is now in control, is the one moving forward, and behind him is the father, rather reduced in his role, perhaps too old to walk properly, clinging on.
This is a kind of cruel but inevitable reversal. Such a contrast to those past days when the father had energy and control but who is now it turns out, a follower himself.
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