Follower
- Created by: Millief1
- Created on: 08-05-16 14:23
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- Follower
- Meaning
- Role reversal between parents and children
- Guilt of being a burden
- Role reversal between parents and children
- Language
- "shoulders globed"
- father is his world - admiration
- strong
- "Mapping the furrow exactly"
- Explorer - a hero to Heaney
- References to the sea/ocean imply he is an explorer/ master of the turf
- Explorer - a hero to Heaney
- father is his world - admiration
- "sail strung"
- sibilance -hear wind
- horses strained at his clicking tongue"
- experienced
- onomatopoeia
- "sweating team"
- doesn't have to glamorise it
- Heaney felt insignificant/ inept in comparison
- "I stumbled in his hob-nailed wake"
- "tripping, falling/Yapping always"
- "in his broad shadow"
- "I was a nuisance"
- "shoulders globed"
- Structure
- "An expert."
- Brevity shows awe
- Change in perception
- ".But today"
- Abrupt change - Volta
- Guilt and remorse that he feels this way
- naturalistic way of changing
- ".But today"
- "Behind me, and will not go away"
- Comma emphasises last part
- Guilt
- Prosaic verse
- straight to the point - impatience
- Comma emphasises last part
- "An expert."
- Meaning
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