follower Flashcards
Role reversal, nautical imagery
His shoulders globed like a full sail strung
Simile shows that like a sail harnessing the power of the wind, he harnesses the power of the horses
An expert.
Fragment sentence- shows that it is a confident, unarguable statement, and the narrators admiration for his father - the best at it.
I stumbled into his hob-nailed wake
The contrast between the father’s skill and the clumsiness of his son
He rode me on his back
The paternal image shows the good relationship that the father and son have - he’s patient and loving with his son
All I ever did was follow in his broad shadow
He felt like a failure for not learning how to plough. He wanted to be as skillful and impressive as his dad was.
I was a nuisance, tripping, falling, yapping always.
List of verbs emphasise the narrator’s clumsy persistence.
But today it is my father who keeps stumbling behind me, and will not go away.
Caesura makes this change to the present tense sudden and unexpected. The ending is ambiguous as the speaker may be frustrated with his father, or glad that they still have a strong bond.
