Follower Flashcards

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1
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When was Follower written?

A

1966

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Who wrote Follower?

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Seamus Heaney

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3
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when was Heaney born?

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1939

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When did Heaney die?

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2013

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5
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Beggining of Follower

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My Father worked with a horse-plough,

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Boat-direction-strength H S G L I A F S S

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His shoulders globed like a full sail strung

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shows control and expertise over farm T H S A H C T

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The horse strained at his clicking tongue

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8
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two word definitive statement

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An expert.

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inferior the child is, links to the semantic field of boats and morning I S I H H-N W

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I stumbled in his hob-nailed wake.

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10
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Past self - very childlike A I E D W F

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All I ever did was follow

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shows strength I H B S R T F

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In his broad shadow round the farm

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sees the truth I W A N T ,F , Y A .

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I was a nuisance, tripping, falling, Yapping always.

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End-Role reversal I I M F W K O S A W N G A

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It is my father who keeps on stumbling and will not go away.

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14
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who was his family?

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eldest child to a family farm in county Derry, Northern Ireland

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all I

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All I ever did is follow

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