Heaney's Past
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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 ...
