Poem Analysis

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This essay compares and analyses the poems "Dockery and Son" by Philip Larkin and and "Follower" by Seamus Heaney for the theme of family, regret and guilt as well as the structures of the two poems. The analysis is supported by appropriate quotes.

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"In the poem Follower, Heaney is writing about his father, since, in the first line, he says, "father worked with a horse plough." In fact, for the first three stanzas, the poet talks about his father's skills as a ploughman, and this shows just how much he admires his father. He shows his father's skill in many ways, like when he personifies a full sail strung to his father's shoulders: "His shoulders globed like a full sail strung", which is a good use of simile; this shows how intense his father's work was. Also, he tells us that "The horses strained at his clicking tongue," and that "with a single pluck of reins, the sweating team turned round and back into the land," and I realize that everything is at his father's command, and his father seems to be one with the field, thus showing the theme of unity with the field."

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