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)
Globed
“Mapping the ________exactly.”
Furrow
Northern Ireland in County is where....
(HINT: author)
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 is the year...
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"