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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.
WORD MEANINGS
POETIC DEVICES
SIMILE
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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