Follower

Question 1

What are Follower’s themes and comparisons

Answer 1

Negative conflicted familial relationship

Mother any distance
Climbing my grandfather

Hasn’t come up

Question 2

The horse strained at ____

Answer 2

“The horse strained at his clicking tongue”
Imagery - Submission of a wild animal, displaying his father as an intimidating, imposing figure

Question 3

“All I ever did _____”

Answer 3

“All I ever did was follow”
Hyperbole, feeling of constant inadequacy in comparison to his father, as if he’ll never measure to him

Question 4

“Mapping the ____

Answer 4

“Mapping the furrow exactly”
Semantic field of admiration, saw his dad as an “expert”

Question 5

Follower Structure

Answer 5

Cyclical Narrative, He was stumbling behind his father at the beginning and now it’s his father stumbling behind him

Poem is orginised into quatrains, neat and stable structure alike the well ploughed field in the poem.