Follower Flashcards

All 9 cards in this deck

Who wrote ‘Follower’, and in which collection?

Seamus Heaney, in Death of a Naturalist (1966).

Where did Seamus Heaney grow up?

On a farm in County Derry, Northern Ireland.

Which prize did Seamus Heaney win in 1995?

The Nobel Prize in Literature.

What is the father doing in ‘Follower’?

Ploughing with a horse-plough.

What is the form of ‘Follower’?

Six quatrains rhyming ABAB, many with half-rhyme.

Which simile describes the father’s shoulders in ‘Follower’?

“His shoulders globed like a full sail strung”.

What did the boy in ‘Follower’ want to do when he grew up?

Plough, like his father.

In the last stanza of ‘Follower’, who follows whom?

The old father now follows the son: a role reversal.

At the end of ‘Follower’, who “keeps stumbling / Behind me, and will not go away”?

The speaker’s father, now old.