Follower - Seamus Heaney

Follower - Seamus Heaney

1. "Shoulders globed like a full sail strung" (simile)

   • Shows that he is powerful and strong enough to use the horses to plough

2. "clicking" (onomatopoeia)

   • Draws attention to his skill

3. "An expert"

   • He's skilled as well as strong

4. "I stumbled"

   • Emphasises the contrasts between the father's skill and the clumsiness of the son

5. "he rode me on his back" (paternal imagery)

   • Shows how they both had a good relationship

6. "All I ever did"

   • He felt like a failure for not learning how to plough

7. "In his broad shadow"

   • He felt like he was living in his father's shadow

8. "tripping, falling, yapping" (rule of three verbs)

   • Emphasises the narrator's clumsy persistence

9. "stumbling" (role reversal)

   • The boy was stumbling before, yet now it's the father