Follower – Seamus Heaney
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수업 노트
The poem at a glance
- "Follower" by Irish poet Seamus Heaney (1939–2013, Nobel Prize 1995), from×Death of a Naturalist×(1966).
- The speaker remembers his father ploughing with horses on their farm in County Derry, Northern Ireland, and himself as a small boy following behind.
- The child admired his father's skill and wanted to be like him — but in the last stanza the roles reverse: now the ageing father "keeps stumbling / Behind me".
- Six quatrains, mostly in iambic tetrameter with an ABAB rhyme scheme (often half-rhyme).
- Key ideas: admiration and hero-worship, skill and tradition, growing up, ageing and role reversal, guilt.
Stanzas 1–3: the expert
- "His shoulders globed like a full sail strung / Between the shafts and the furrow": a simile making the father powerful and graceful, like a ship under sail.
- "The horses strained at his clicking tongue": effortless control over powerful animals.
- "An expert." — a two-word sentence; the caesura and the blunt phrase show the boy's total admiration.
- Technical vocabulary — "wing", "steel-pointed sock", "headrig" — shows the precise craft of ploughing (and the speaker's pride in knowing it).
- "The sod rolled over without breaking"; "with a single pluck / Of reins"; "His eye / Narrowed and angled at the ground, / Mapping the furrow exactly" — precision, economy, mastery.
Stanzas 4–5: the child following
- "I stumbled in his hob-nailed wake": the boy trails behind like a small boat in a ship's wake — extending the sail image.
- "Fell sometimes on the polished sod"; "Sometimes he rode me on his back / Dipping and rising to his plod" — tender, rhythmic memory.
- "I wanted to grow up and plough, / To close one eye, stiffen my arm": the boy imitates his father's gestures.
- "All I ever did was follow / In his broad shadow round the farm": the title word; the father's shadow suggests both protection and being overshadowed.
Stanza 6: the reversal
- "I was a nuisance, tripping, falling, / Yapping always": the adult speaker judges his younger self harshly — like a little dog.
- "But today": the volta — the only move into the present tense.
- "It is my father who keeps stumbling / Behind me, and will not go away": the old father now follows the son — physically (age, dependence) and in memory (he haunts the poet's mind).
- The echo of "stumbling" from stanza 4 completes the reversal.
- "will not go away" is ambiguous: irritation, guilt, love, or the father's lasting influence — perhaps all at once.
Form and sound
- Regular quatrains and steady rhythm mimic the even furrows and plodding pace of ploughing.
- Half-rhymes (wake / back, sod / plod, plough / follow) — near-matches, like a son who can never quite match the father.
- Enjambment carries sentences across lines like the plough across a field.
- Short sentences — "An expert." — stand out against the flow.
- Sound: "clicking tongue" (onomatopoeia), "hob-nailed", "plod" — heavy, earthy sounds.
Themes and comparisons
- Admiration of a parent; the child's desire to imitate.
- Tradition and change: Heaney became a poet, not a farmer — he "follows" with a pen, not a plough (see his poem "Digging").
- Time and ageing: the cycle of care reverses.
- Memory and guilt: the father "will not go away".
- Comparisons: "Childhood" (children and the old), "Praise Song for My Mother" (parent praised), "My Parents" (parents and childhood).
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연습 문제
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1.Who wrote 'Follower'?
Easy- ASeamus Heaney
- BPhilip Larkin
- CRobert Browning
- DStephen Spender
2.What is the father doing in the opening stanzas?
Easy- AFishing on a boat
- BBuilding a wall
- CDriving a tractor
- DPloughing with horses
3."His shoulders globed like a full sail strung" is…
Easy- Aonomatopoeia
- Ba rhetorical question
- Ca simile
- Da metaphor
4.What does the sail simile suggest about the father?
Medium- AThat he is lost
- BStrength, power and grace
- CWeakness
- DThat he is a sailor
5.What is the effect of the two-word sentence 'An expert.'?
Medium- AIt states the boy's admiration bluntly and emphatically
- BIt shows the father is a scientist
- CIt is sarcastic
- DIt introduces a new character
6.What does 'The sod rolled over without breaking' show?
Medium- AThe soil is too hard
- BThe horses are lazy
- CThe plough is broken
- DThe father's precise skill
7.Which words are technical ploughing terms?
Medium- Anuisance, yapping, tripping
- Bglobed, strung, strained
- Cwing, sock, headrig
- Dsail, wake, shadow
8.What did the boy want?
Medium- ATo ride the horses alone
- BTo grow up and plough like his father
- CTo leave the farm
- DTo become a sailor
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