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Follower -
Seamus Heaney
- "Shoulders globed like a full sail strung"
(simile)
- Shows that he is powerful and
strong enough to use the horses
to plough
- Shows that he is powerful and
strong enough to use the horses
to plough
- "clicking"
(onomatopoeia)
- Draws attention to his skill
- Draws attention to his skill
- "An expert"
- He's skilled as well as strong
- He's skilled as well as strong
- "I stumbled"
- Emphasises the contrasts
between the father's skill and
the clumsiness of the son
- Emphasises the contrasts
between the father's skill and
the clumsiness of the son
- "he rode me on his back"
(paternal imagery)
- Shows how they both had a
good relationship
- Shows how they both had a
good relationship
- "All I ever did"
- He felt like a failure for not learning how to
plough
- He felt like a failure for not learning how to
plough
- "In his broad shadow"
- He felt like he was living in his father's shadow
- He felt like he was living in his father's shadow
- "tripping, falling, yapping"
(rule of three verbs)
- Emphasises the narrator's
clumsy persistence
- Emphasises the narrator's
clumsy persistence
- "stumbling"
(role reversal)
- The boy was stumbling before, yet now
it's the father
- The boy was stumbling before, yet now
it's the father
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