an analysis of Follower by Seamus Heaney

"Seamus Heaney the Follower Analysis???There are many search engines on the Internet for Seamus Heaney the Follower Analysis. Seamus Heaney is a website that has quite a number of analyses for Heaney. His poem, the Follower, tells about his relationship with his father as a young child. He appeared to look up to his father. Sardonically, by the end of the poem, his father needed his help and looked up to him. There may have been times in your life that you looked up to your parents and admired them for they way they treated each other. They also may have seemed to always be by your side no matter what and you believed they were very smart, right? Well in this poem, the young boy felt the same way about his father. You might remember the old proverb???Follow close on those who go before you???. This poem is a typically example of how a person can influence our lives. We can have uncompromising admiration for our parents as this young boy had for his father. The uncompromising admiration in this poem was positive, but in real life situations, we need to be careful that this admiration does not become dangerous. The boy's declaration???All I ever did was follow??? can also show that this boy had low self-esteem issues. As he grew older his father began to follow him around. This shows that his father had admiration for the boy also. This boy never thought about what it was like to be a leader but accepted his role as a follower. The young boy as he grew older knew how to survive in a leadership position. He paid close attention to his father who was there when he needed him. Once the tables were turned the adult boy knew exactly what his father needed."