follower

• what are 3 key themes?

  admiration, self-critism, skill
• "his sholders globed like a full sail strung"


  sibilance of "shoulders" and "sail" suggests the father works smoothly and effortlessly
• "an exspert"
• "all i ever did was follow in his broad shadow arround the farm"
• "it is my father who keeps stumbling"
• what is the structure?

  cyclical- repitition of "stumbling" reinforces this, role reversal representitive of "circle of life"
• what is the rhyme scheme?

  regular alternate rhyme with occasional half-rhymes which reflected how the son falls short of his father
• what is the conext?

  heaney admires his dad who is a farmer yet he was the eldest of 9 children so had lots of pressure to follow exspectations in the farming environment
• how might readers feel?

  readers may reflect on their personal exspirences with family and relise parent child relationships change over time