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

In this essay I will compare the presentation of family in diggingwith at least one early(a) poem in identity. I have chosen to selectFollower.The title of the poem Digging could refer to turning over soil forplanting or harvesting, or digging deeper to uncover some sort oftreasure. Alternatively the poet could be thinking of digging up thepast, or uncovering some secret abstruse in the past.The poem is written from the poets perspective and there is no doubtthat this poem is about a writer for in the opening lines we look atthat Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests...The poet is writing in his room which is upstairs and overlooks thegarden. His attention is caught by the clean rasping sound of aspade digging into the gravelly ground. The poet looks out and seeshis father digging as he has done for twenty years. Heaney describeshis father with great admiration for his position and skill as afarmer. The poet reflects ruefully on the skill that his father andgrandfath er possessed with a spade. He is slightly in awe of them ashe celebrates their skills and he regrets his own inability to wield aspade. The careful, deliberate, way his father cuts into the earthwith his spade makes digging for peat sound like a skilled craft Thecourse boot nestled on the lug, the shaft.When the poet describes his father uncovering the potatoes he usesalliteration again in tall tops and inhumed the bridge edge deep tocapture 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 refined sod sometimes he rode me on his back. Thisconveys to the reader just how close the relationship was betweenfather and son but it also shows how following him was non always easyon the rough ground. Now he is grown up 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 briskbetween Heaney and his father. The poem is very much a personalexperience, but it has a much wider significance relating to any kindof hero worship by a follower. Now that he is himself an adult,Heaney acknowledges that the father he hero worshipped as a young boyhas grown old and needfully as much tolerance and patience as he himselfonce showed his son.