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Jacob Gharis.     Focus: The speaker uses imagery describing the size and difficulty of his father’s that he followed him on and how the roles have switched.

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Jacob Gharis.     Focus: The speaker uses imagery describing the size and difficulty of his father’s that he followed him on and how the roles have switched.

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Analysis:

Heaney conveys the message that admiration lasts between him and his dad through the use of simile and diction to show that admiration is universal.
He uses depictions of his dad working on the farm and compares him to boats and sailing. This shows that his dad is similar to a navigator or captain so that he is guiding Heaney. The rhyme scheme is very regular ABAB to mimick ploughing and the straight parallel furrows that his dad digs. Heaney states that he wanted to be like his dad and follow him to contrast his dad wanting to following him around at the end. This could mean that his dad is clutching on to him because he has grown distant away from his dad :(

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Alyssa Polk

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here's my annotations on this poem.

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Focus: Shift in speakers from uncertainty to determination.
This will be explored through the imagery and sound focused language used by Heaney as well as the circle like beginning and end of the poem and the shift they emphasize

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Where is your focus statement?

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Heaney opens the poem with descriptions of a photograph of his uncle in his element. Then, the poem shifts to his own experiences in his family's trade and he describes his and their memories. He ends with the last influence of the trade on his life and his father's life.

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Jillian

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Where is your statement of focus?

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Neha Sawhney

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Loren Tombo

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The focus of the poem is the change in a father-son relationship, and Heaney illustrates this through contrasting tones of submission and domination in both his diction and imagery.

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In “The Early Purges” written by Seamus Heaney, there are mainly two voices that are evident throughout the poem. The opening stanzas portray a child who is emotionally wounded by the treatment of the animals. There is a progression once the reader can see that the speaker is maturing into an adult. In the beginning, the speaker has feelings of horror and fear, but once we reach the ending, the speaker seems to be unaffected by the animal cruelty.

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Annotations/Outline

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Where is your statement of focus?

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My focus is on Heaney’s first experience with death, and how that transitions from fear to acceptance of the fact that death is essential.

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The poem reflects upon Heaney’s choice of perusing poetry rather than the labor of a farmer. The father and son relationship is reflected throughout the generations even reflecting his own uses of words while describing his family and the farm.

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Focus: Seamus Heaney uses visual imagery and symbolism to describe his attempt to break the mold established within his family.

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I will explore the contrast between grace and clumsiness as it is expressed in this Poem

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Focus: By contrasting the past and the present in the poem Ancestral Photograph, Heaney shows that he has fond memories of his family's past as farmers, but he believes that he must separate from family tradition and the past and move on towards the future.

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Focus

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The focus of this poem would be Seamus Heaney’s legacy in which the father figures in his family have created. Heaney exhibits admiration for these figures and reveals his own legacy by digging with a pen rather than a spade or a shovel.

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The speaker in the poem “Ancestral Photograph” uses primarily rural imagery to illustrate the death and decay of his familial traditions as seen through the details of the photograph and the speaker’s memories.

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My focus of “The Barn” is the speaker using a scarring tone throughout the poem from his childhood fear; by doing so, he is able to reveal his childhood fear and the effect this fear held on him as an individual.

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Focus: Fear of the unknown

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The speaker in the poem "Follower" uses the pattern of comparing himself to his father to illustrate his feelings of not bending good enough, which can be seen through the shift between stanzas three and four, the theme of following, and the work imagery.

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"Ancestral Photography" contrasts family traditons of the past and the present through the use of imagery

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I'm gonna focus on the fathers experience and the lack of experience of Heaney in farming. Farming is not Heaney's area of expertise and he continually struggles and is a nuisance. He begins to find his true calling in poetry and is not a follower but rather a leader.

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Focus: the focus of the Ancestral Photograph is about the use time passage that causes people to change (from youth to adulthood) through enjambment, diction, and similie. He starts off talking about the picture to show the use of time. Then he compares his experience with his dad and him and the experience of his dad and his uncle. The comparison shows the experience between different time periods in his dads life.

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Focus: Fear of the unknown

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The focus was on how Heaney describes farming as a life of hardship and great difficulty. He then goes and praises his father for having lived such a hard life as a farmer for so long. He does this through the extensive use of visual imagery which acts to describe the various deeds in which a farmer must complete in his or her daily life. He also uses specific diction to emphasize the hardships of the farming life. However, specifically in stanza 5 & 6, the tone used is that of admiration to suggest that he admires his father and grandfather for their skill and hard working character.

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In "The Barn", Seamus Heaney uses exaggerative descriptions, dark vs light imagery, poetic devices, and similes to craft a fearful story from a child's perspective, illustrating the large imagination of a child's mind

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In the poem "Digging", Seamus Heaney uses the idea of "the pen is mightier than the sword" in order to illustrate the complexities of diverging from tradition, which can be seen through irony, diction highlighting the juxtaposition between up and down, and the shift between the descriptions of Heaney's ancestors and himself.

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The speaker in the poem “Ancestral Photograph” uses rural imagery to illustrate the death and decay of his familiar traditions  as seen through details of the photograph and the speaker’s memories.

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Focus: In the poem, "Follower" in "Death of a Naturalist", Seamus Heaney uses visual imagery to create contrasting images of the father as an expert and the son as an amateur, an extended metaphor to that compares the father to a mariner to emphasize his expertise in his work, and he uses positional words to create the shift of the son in his role as a follower to a leader.

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Seamus Heaney uses an extended metaphor of sailing to compare farming with his admiration for his father. There's a congrats in childish tone to expertise tone to highlight the idea that Seamus is a follower and how much he looks up to his father. The father knows how to do everything so well which is why he tries to follow in his footsteps which eventually happens.

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In "The Barn", Seamus Heaney u uh

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In "Ancestral Photograph", Haney uses light and dark imagery within the poem to show a contrast between the past

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Heaney uses figurative language, alliteration, and repetition to reveal the similarities between digging and writing and how he will follow his own path in the family.

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Focus: In the poem “Ancestral Photograph”, Seamus Heaney uses the change in the faimily’s business practices to reflect the sadness brought about by both the changing times, and the death of loved ones that connected us to those times.

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Focus: In "Digging" by Seamus Heaney, Heaney discusses his reverence for his ancestors' work and his divergence from the family tradition in order to develop the theme that happiness is found through the pursuit of passion. He does this through his use of strong sensory imagery, his juxtaposition of the pen with spade, and the rhythmic nature of digging.

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Focus: Heaney uses word choice, structure, and brief rhyme scheme to demonstrate the progression of society and the moving on from family

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In Seamus Heaney's poem "Ancestral Photograph" in the collection of works Death of a Naturalist, the speaker emphasizes the inevitable nature of change through the motif of the possession of time, the irony of the uncle's portrait, and the same portrait acting as a symbol of the past.

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In the Poem “Follower”, the speaker uses six quatrains in order to divide the poem in half as well as passive verbs describing trouble walking in order to emphasize their commentary on the important of individualism

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descriptiveFocus: Heaney uses visual imagery and his background knowledge of ploughing and its process to convey the idea that the father was looked up to by the persona; his young boy, and that he was an expert at what he did.

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Focus: In the poem "Digging", Seamus Heaney uses images from the speakers memory of his childhood, the repetition of the first and last stanza, and alliteration of words describing the speakers digging to express how the speaker does not want to follow in the footsteps of his father and grandfather, but rather create his own future.

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Focus: In the poem " The Barn", by Seamus Heaney, Heaney explores how imagination affects a child by contrasting the two halves of the poem and how the focus shifts from the barn to how imagination makes the child feel.

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In "Ancestral Photograph", Heaney reflects on an old photograph of a dead uncle. The photo reminds Heaney's father of the uncle as well as fond memories of cattle fairs. Heaney's uncle is gone and so are the fairs, representing lost family history

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Focus- The speaker chooses to examine his childhood fears within his family barn through the use of strong and vivid imagery. He develops this fear through claustrophobia and fears of suffocation.

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In "The Barn", Seamus Heaney uses negative diction, dark and light imagery, imagery of the natural world, and the demonization of average objects to explore the idea of the cruelty of the real world.

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In the poem, Heaney uses reference to death, memories of rural life, and visual imagery to portray the process of moving on from loss by comparing taking down a family portrait to his memories of his family at the fair.

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By Ayodeji Otunuga
In poem "follower" by poet Seamus Heaney
Seamus uses imagery and diction relating to a nostalgic vibe to illustrate the relationship between his father( father vs son relationship)

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My focus is on Heaney's contrast of his career as opposed to that of his father's, and his father's before him. And how he uses basic human sensory imagery in order to portray this.

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In the poem "Digging" by Sheamus Heaney, the significance of family identity is expressed through the use of irregular structure and rhyme scheme, alliteration, and various images of labor in order to ultimately reveal how individuals can distinguish themselves and do not necessarily have to follow the identities of their families.

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Heaney portrays the impact of change of times through the loss of value within a farmer by demeriting man, the structure of the poem, and the use of possessive pronouns.

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Heaney reveals his maturation from a follower to a leader through repeating the ideas of labor and strength and by adjusting the structure of the poem, ultimately illuminating the changing of the times.

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In "The Barn", Heaney uses enjambment, personification, and diction to ultimately reveal the fear a young child has of an ominous Barn.

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Focus: Fear and discomfort produced by hard objects and darkness, representing the fears of a chil and a Naturalist.

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In the poem, “Digging”, Seamus Heaney emphasizes on the theme of acceptance on one’s fate and breaking from tradition through the use of symbolism, attitude and passage of time.

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The speaker explores his struggle with identity through his relationship with his father through the use of imagery and structure.

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Th speaker explores his struggle with identity through his relationship with his father through the use of imagery and structure.

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In Digging, from "Death of a Naturalist" by Seamus Heaney, Heaney reflects upon the reputation of his fathers before him and how his own path is a very different one through the juxtaposition of the spade with the pen, sensory imagery associated with the earth, and a tone shift from admiration to conviction.

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In the poem “The Barn” by Seamus Heaney, the poet uses the speaker’s nightmarish recollection of a barn from their past to explore the conflict between oneself and the environment in which they are raised. Heaney establishes and develops this conflict throughout the poem, principally with his use of imagery appealing to the senses of sight and touch, as well as through the use of metaphors.