Follower - Seamus Heaney

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  • Created by: 13westt
  • Created on: 31-10-17 18:33
  • A dislike of urban life, embrace of the natural world.
  • A love of the supernatural
  • Use of ordinary language

His family were farmers from generation to generation, Heaney didn't become a farmer.

Ordered structure, ABAB rhyme scheme. Neatness of structure relates to the father's expertise, therefore what the poet admires and respects in his dad is this. 

This structure is challenged in the fourth stanza to half-rhyme, 'wake' and 'back', this shows how the boy can't match the perfection of his father.

Enjambment is used during the change in the stanza, at the same

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