‘Follower’ by Seamus Heaney is a poem that pulls on your emotions and that of many people can relate to. It is about a boy who has idolized his father his whole life, wanting to be just like him, but as he grows up he realizes that his father may not be as he thought he was and changes directions to where his life was heading. Throughout his life he was always following and looking up to his father but the roles switched, where he was once following his father, his father is now following him. Seamus Heaney creates an ending of emotion, it makes the readers think about what has happened between the relationship of the father and son. Heaney uses Interior monologue, characterisation of himself and his father and sentence structure, to create
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The sentences of the poem get shorter as the poem continues. They are long in the first 3 stanzas, symbolizing that the narrator could talk about the father for a long time, it also shows the love of the narrator. It can also symbolize the length of time that he spent idolizing his father. the 4th and 5th stanzas have long sentences with some short stanzas, that could show how the readers love for the father is slowly coming to an end and that maybe the patience for the father is also coming short. The last stanza is just short sentences. His love of his father has come to an end and he is trying to run away from his idolization and his father, he wants to start a new life without his father with him. The shortness of the sentences are like he is annoyed and he wants to keep the talk about his father to a minimal, compared to the beginning where he just talked about his father. As the tone is sharp and the sentences are sharp is connects with the characterization of the characters to show how the personality of the narrator has changed to one where is annoyed at his father and wants to forget about him. This causes a striking ending as you see a complete different personality of the narrator through sentence structure and wonder why it suddenly
The sentences of the poem get shorter as the poem continues. They are long in the first 3 stanzas, symbolizing that the narrator could talk about the father for a long time, it also shows the love of the narrator. It can also symbolize the length of time that he spent idolizing his father. the 4th and 5th stanzas have long sentences with some short stanzas, that could show how the readers love for the father is slowly coming to an end and that maybe the patience for the father is also coming short. The last stanza is just short sentences. His love of his father has come to an end and he is trying to run away from his idolization and his father, he wants to start a new life without his father with him. The shortness of the sentences are like he is annoyed and he wants to keep the talk about his father to a minimal, compared to the beginning where he just talked about his father. As the tone is sharp and the sentences are sharp is connects with the characterization of the characters to show how the personality of the narrator has changed to one where is annoyed at his father and wants to forget about him. This causes a striking ending as you see a complete different personality of the narrator through sentence structure and wonder why it suddenly