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Follower is a poem that focuses on the relationship between father

and son, shifting perspective from past to present which is giving


the reader an insight into a son's reaction to the passing of time
and his father grown old

The poem seasoned by Elaine Gaston is partly about the sense of


role reversal she felt when all of a sudden she had to look after
her father as he recuperated after an operation. It mentions he
once tied her laces when she was young, now she has to tie her
father's laces.
The title of the follower really makes us want to dive into the
poem to discover who is following who, and who is the leader.
Maybe it could be a mysterious poem or maybe it could be a
poem about devotion, romantic or religious. It makes our
imaginations are go crazy before for we start reading.

Once we start to read the poem, we discover the title is working


on a few different levels. Most of the poem is describing how the
son literally does follow his dad around the field, but we also see
how the son figuratively wants to follow in his father's footsteps
to become a skilled farmer just like him. By the end of the poem
things turn around completely to the father following the son. The
idea of following is persistent in the poem, but it doesn't always
follow the same direction.

The title seasoned can be took in many different ways. Before


you start reading, you could imagine it as a poem about food and
seasoned meaning seasons such as Salt, herbs, pepper, spices etc.
Or it could mean having a lot of experience doing things therefore
knowing how to do it well, an example of this is a seasoned
traveller.
Heaney’s poem is a six stanza piece, made up of quatrains, or
four-line stanzas. Each line is roughly the same length and
contains both slanting and perfect end word rhymes. In this piece,
Heaney uses both perfect and slanting end rhymes. Slanting
meaning only half a rhyme, and perfect, being exact rhymes for
an example in the second stanza of the poem in which the first
and third lines rhyme with “wing” and “breaking.” An example of
a slanting rhyme can also be found in this stanza with the second
and fourth lines, “sock” and “pluck” partially rhyme due to the
organisation of their consonance.

Seasoned is a also a six stanza poem, made up of one four-line


stanza, a five line, two six line stanzas, a septet and one two line
stanza. Each line differs in size unlike the follower.
In seasoned there is the repetition of the word cycled and people.
In the same way in the follower the word sometimes is repeated in
the third stanza.
Both poems use enjambment, By allowing a thought to overflow
across lines, enjambment creates fluidity and brings a prose-like
quality to poetry. Enjambment builds a more complex narrative
within the poems by fleshing out a thought instead of confining it
to one line.

Personally I like the follower better as I like the twist in the last
two lines and the subtle humour used for parts.

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