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POWER POINT PRESENTATION

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SRUTHI CHANDRAN
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FOLLOWER
_ SEAMUS HEANEY

SEAMUS
HEANEY
(1939-2013)

SEAMUS HEANEY
Born in county Derry, Northern Ireland
on April 13,1939,Seamus Heaney
published his first book in 1996,Death
of a Naturalist, which created stirring
portraits of his rural upbringing. Later
titles like Field Work and The Haw
Lantern looked at his homelands
tumultuous political affairs. A lover of
mythology, Heaney has taught at
Berkley, Harvard and Oxford and won
the Nobel prize in 1995. He died in
Dublin, Ireland, on August 30,2013.

FOLLOWER
My father worked with a horse-plough,
His shoulders globed like a full sail strung
Between the shafts and the furrow.
The horses strained at his clicking tongue.
An expert .He would set the wing,
And fit the bright steel-pointed sock.
The sod rolled over without breaking.
At the head rig, with a single pluck
Of reins, the sweating team turned round
And back into the land. His eye
Narrowed and angled at the ground,
Mapping the furrow exactly.

I stumbled in his hob-nailed wake,

Fell sometimes on the polished sod;
Sometimes he rode me on his back
Dipping and rising to his plod.
I wanted to grow up and plough,
To close one eye, stiffen my arm.
All I ever did was follow
In his broad shadow round the farm.
I was a nuisance, tripping, falling,
Yapping always. But today
It is my father who keeps stumbling
Behind me, and will not go away.

SUMMARY OF THE POEM

The Poet describes the toils of his father who worked with a
horse-plough. His bulged shoulders are compared to a full
sail. At the clicking of his tongue the horses move forward
with effort. His father is an expert plough man. He makes
ready the horses and plucks out the sod without breaking,
with a single pull at the head rigs of the horses. When the
horses turn round and come back into the land, the father
watches the furrow carefully. While, following the father, the
son sometimes carry him on his back. The son wishes to
become an expert ploughman like his father. He was a
nuisance to the father as he stumbles and falls. But now the
aged father follows his son tripping and doesnt go away.

WORD MEANINGS

POETIC DEVICES
SIMILE

His shoulders globed like a full sail strung

Rhyme Scheme

abab cdcd
Rhyming Words
plough-furrow, strung-tongue
wing-breaking, sock-pluck
round-ground, eye-exactly
wake-back, sod-plod
plough-follow, arm-farm
falling-stumbling, today-away

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