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FOLLOWER

- SEAMUS HEANEY

SEAMUS HEANEY

SEAMUS HEANEYIrish poetBorn on 1939First book - “ Eleven Poems” (1965)Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature (1995)Other works – “Selected poems 1965-

1975” , “Preoccupations: Selected prose 1968-1978”

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 stumblingBehind me, and will not go away.

DIFFICULT WORDS

Strain -/strein/ - to show effects of worry or pressure.

Sod -/sоd/ - a layer of earth with grass growing

on it.

Rein -/rein/ - long narrow leather band that is fastened around a horse’s neck to it.

Yap -/јæp/ - to make a sharp , irritating sound.

SCAFFOLDING QUESTIONS

What was the speaker’s father?

What was his father expert at?

What did the speaker want to become?

HINTSThe speaker’s father was a farmer.

He was an expert in farming.

The speaker wanted to be like his father, a good farmer.

DEVELOPING APPRECIATION

IMAGES Simile “His shoulders globed like a full sail

strung”.

Rhyming words plough – furrow , strung –

tongue. Rhyming scheme abab cdcd.

GROUP WORK

Discuss in groups and write the rhyming schemes and images.

ASSIGNMENT

Attempt the appreciation of the poem “Follower”.

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