Vocabulary
A farm tool for loosening/turning soil before sowing seeds and planting
Plough
A short heavy-headed nail used to reinforce the soles of boots
Definition of Hobnailed
Admiration and Relevance is a....
•"An expert" (5)
•"His eye / Narrowed and angled at the ground, / Mapping the furrow exactly" (10)
•"All I ever did was follow / In his broad shadow" (19)
Simile
•“His shoulders globed like a full sail strung“ (2)
•The simile emphasizes the hard work that his father does, thus showing his admiration and reverence for him.
Form something into a globe shape (past tense)
Form something into a globe shape (past tense)
Define: Globed
“Mapping the ________exactly.”
Furrow
Northern Ireland in County
Where Heaney(author) lived his childhood in
Queen’s University, Crayford College, Harvard, and Oxford University.
Where Heaney started his career as a poetry lecturer.
“His shoulders ______ like a full sail strung”
globed
A narrow, long trench in the surface of the ground made by a plow, usually for planting seeds for irrigation
Furrow
Cycle of Life and Aging
•"Sometimes he rode me on his back / Dipping and rising to his plod" (15).
•"But today / It is my father who keeps stumbling / Behind me, and will not go away" (22).
juxtaposition
•“All I ever did was follow” (19)
•“It is my father who keeps stumbling Behind me” (23)
Starting point of plowed lines-an unplowed strip at the edge of a field, usually a turnaround area for horses and plows.
Headrig
Surface of the ground, usually grass and layer of soil
Sod
1966
The year that follower was first published in, called “Death of a Naturalist”.
Tone shifts
•“An expert.” (5)
•“But today It is my father who keeps stumbling Behind me, and will not go away” (22-24)
“The ______ rolled over without breaking”
Sod
“I stumbled in his _______ wake,”
Hobnailed
Identity and Aspiration
•"I stumbled in his hobnailed wake" (13).
•"I wanted to grow up and plough, / To close one eye, stiffen my arm" (17).
Imagery
“In his broad shadow round the farm” (20)
"In his broad shadow round the farm"