In this essay I will compare the presentation of family in digging

In this essay I will compare the presentation of family in takewith at least one other poem in identity. I have elect to selectFollower.The title of the poem Digging could refer to turning everyplace soil forplanting or harvesting, or gibe deeper to uncover several(prenominal) sort oftreasure. Alternatively the poet could be thinking of digging up thepast, or uncovering some secret hidden in the past.The poem is written from the poets perspective and there is no doubtthat this poem is roughly a writer for in the opening lines we learnthat Between my hitch and my thumb The squat pen rests...The poet is writing in his room which is on a higher floor and overlooks thegarden. His attention is caught by the clean rasping enunciate of a turn over digging into the gravelly ground. The poet looks out and seeshis take digging as he has done for twenty years. Heaney describeshis set out with great admiration for his durability and skill as afarmer. The poet reflects ruefully on the skill that his father andgrandfather possessed with a spade. He is slightly in surprise of them ashe celebrates their skills and he regrets his own inability to make do aspade. The careful, deliberate, way his father cuts into the earthwith his spade makes digging for peat sound like a skilled craft Thecourse boot snuggled on the lug, the shaft.When the poet describes his father uncovering the potatoes he usesalliteration again in tall tops and buried the bridge edge deep to hex the sharp, precise sound of the spade entering the soil. Whenthe poet hears the sound of his fathers spade digging he lets us hearit to in the word rasping, an onomatopoeia, and in the hardalliterative sound of gravelly ground.In digging the dis... ... him the child Fellsometimes on the polished sod sometimes he rode me on his back. Thisconveys to the reader just how close the kin was amongfather and son but it also shows how following him was not incessantly easyon the rough ground. Now he is grown u p though it is his father who isthe follower and he now keeps stumbling and will not go awayEven though the word love is never used in the poem, it is obviouslythe word that best describes the basis of the relationship existingbetween Heaney and his father. The poem is very much a personalizedexperience, but it has a much wider significance relating to any kindof grinder worship by a follower. Now that he is himself an adult,Heaney acknowledges that the father he hero worshipped as a young male childhas grown old and needs as much tolerance and industry as he himselfonce showed his son.