Heaney's Past

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... ut what his father did and how good he was at it.

There are only two people in this poem. They are Seamus Heaney and his father. His father was an 'expert´ at what he did. Heaney watched what his father did very carefully and was a 'nuisance´. This is because he was:

'Tripping, falling, yapping always´.

This adds to the intensity of the poem because it adds to the closeness of their relationship.

The poem shows us that Heaney´s father was an expert when it came to his work. It tells us about the skill involved in ploughing and about how Heaney´s father worked to such a high level of precision. It also shows what Heaney thinks of his father and that when Heaney was younger he wanted to be a farmer, like his fath ...

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