Seamus Heaney Essay -- English Literature

Seamus HeaneySeamus Heaney was born in 1939 in Northern Ireland into a ruralfarming family. The family where Catholic, living in a predominantlyProtestant area of the country. I can relate to this as I interpose fromSouth Africa where the tension between the black and white hatful ishigh, this has helped me to tell apart my first poem Docker. The secondpoem I am going to analyse is Follower which tells the story of ayoung son who grows up admiring his dad entirely as time ticks by, thingschange and people age. The third and final poem I will analyse is turn over which also is about a young lad who admires his dad for hisskill, but feels bad because he isnt as skilled as his father is and because chooses to dig with his pen in the form of poetry.The poem Docker starts withdraw with there, in the corner from this itcan be seen that the man is a lonesome man who does not want to bebothered, in all he is doing is perfect(a) at his drink. Speech clamped inthe lips, vice this use o f metaphor indicates that he is a antisocial person with the word vice formerly again describing the manspower and strength. The Docker is then described as a hard and toughman, Cowling plated forehead and sleigh head get to because he iscompared with very hard objects, such as a sledge head which is madeout of steel.That fist would drop a turncock on a Catholic this verse is of aviolent temper which confirms the Docker as a violent aggressive manwho clear does not like Catholics.The mans dislike for Catholics is emphasised even more in thefollowing verse The only Roman collar he tolerates, smiles all roundhis sleek pint of porter. From this it can be verbalise that even thewhite foam made by his beer reminds him of Cath... ...ss.I cute to grow up and plough this proves that like with all littleboys, he wanted to be just like his dad when he grows up. He followshis father all round the farm In his broad buns which againdescribes the mans huge build and strength.In this poe m, the first five stanzas trifle the past, whereas thelast stanza represents the present. I was a nuisance, tripping andfalling The boy, who is at present a man, comes to realise he was clumsy andunskilful who was always bothering his father Yapping always. notwithstanding today is the main contrast between past and present, It is myfather who keeps stumbling stub me and will not go away His fatherhas obviously patriarchal and pay off enfeebled while his son has now grown upand become more powerful and skilful than what his father is. It ishis father who follows him around now and will not go away.