Wednesday, 24 November 2010

follower by Seamus Heaney

1)
A) His shoulders globed like a full sail strung = This shows that his father has bean working hard all day and his shoulders are so strong but stiff strung so tiitly so tired.
B) The horse is strained at his clicking tongue = The horse is exausted at his comands constantly his father hounds it to do more jobs for him.
C) With a single pluck/Of reins, the sweating team turned round = This shows how hard his father and his horse has bean working as a team.
D) Dipping and rising to his plod = This shows that the horse is in harmany with his father.  
2)
A) I stumbled in his hob nailed wake = This shows that heaney is young weak and tired and struggling to keep up with his father. This also shows that he wants to walk in his fathers footsteps.
B) I was a nuisance, Tripping, falling / yapping always = This shows that he wants to learn what to do when it says yapping always, this also shows that he is tired and tring to get better.
3) The young Heaney remineds me off a babby elephant because it is constantly following its parents always on the move always in it shadow the father always helping it along.

Friday, 19 November 2010

Seamus heaney - digging

1)At the start of the poem the writer is looking down from his window watching his father digging.

2)The sieght of his father digging in the lower bed remineds him of his for fathers digging for potatoes.

3)He ascoiciates his grandfather with digging.

4)The memory holds his him bringing his grandfather a bottle of milk whilst he was digging.

5)The skills the wrier uses are similies when he compares his pen to spades and to a gun. He speads up and slows down tempo. At the start he uses riming skiems such as thumb gun, sound ground.
A) This poem is about how his gradfathers used to dig for potatos before the poataoe famen. 
B) The words that strike me most were digging pens and gun.
C) Heaney is different from his fathers becausehe writes instead of digging.

Tuesday, 16 November 2010

introduction

This is the start of my english litreture it is on Seamus Heaney and Gillian Clarke and pre 1914.