Love and Relationship Poems - Follower
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- Created on: 11-01-19 10:12
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- Follower
- Nautical Imagery
- The narrator uses language of sea and sailing showing his father's skill, strength and the admiration the boy has for him
- 'like a full sail strung'
- He describes the father as the sails, the captain and the ship itself.
- similie
- Shows the father harnessing the power of the wind
- Reflective language
- The narrator sees himself as a nuisance and perhaps a failure but he understands that the father he admired now relies on him
- 'role reversal'
- 'All I ever did was'
- Sees himself as a failure
- 'Broad sahdow'
- The boy was always living in his dad's shadow
- Use of 'broad' shows his fathers strength
- 'Behind me and will not go away'
- Shows the close relationship and strong bond as even as they grew older they are together
- Frustration?
- The narrator sees himself as a nuisance and perhaps a failure but he understands that the father he admired now relies on him
- Compare with:
- Climbing my grandfather
- Before you were mine
- Family relationships
- Structure
- 6 stanzas, 4 lines long
- 1st three: about the father
- Last stanza is role reversal
- Next two focus on the boy struggling to be like his father
- 6 stanzas, 4 lines long
- Form
- ABAB rhyme scheme apart from 'plough' and 'furrow'
- Half rhyme reflects that the son hasn't become like his father
- ABAB rhyme scheme apart from 'plough' and 'furrow'
- Other
- There is a ceasura '...always. But today...'
- Changes the time from past to present
- This is where the role reversal takes place
- Enjambment in the last stanza shows the father is trying to keep up
- 'It is my father'
- The father has become the follower.
- The title refers to both the father and son
- The father has become the follower.
- There is a ceasura '...always. But today...'
- Nautical Imagery
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