WELCOME

FATHIMA MEMORIAL TRAINING COLLEGE

(AFFILIATED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF KERALA)

VADAKKEVILA,PALLIMUKKU,KOLLAM-10

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FOLLOWERS

MY FATHER WORKED WITH A HORSE-PLOUGH.HIS SHOULDERS GLOBED LIKE A FULL SAIL STRUNGBETWEEN THE SHAFTS AND THE FURROWTHE HORSE STRAINED AT HIS CLICKING TONGUE.

PROFILE

SEAMUS HEANEY (1939) IRISH POET AND WRITER WAS AWARDED THE NOBEL PRIZE IN

LITERATURE IN 1955.HIS FIRST BOOK, “ELEVEN POEMS”, WAS PUBLISHED IN 1965-1975 AND “PREOCCUPATIONS: SELECTED PROSE 1968-

1978” WERE PUBLISHED IN 1980. HE CURRENTLY LIVES IN DUBLIN

RHYME SCHEME

AB,AB IS THE RHYME SCHEME FOLLOWED IN THE POEM.

THE SIMILES USED IN THE POEM.

IN SIMILE ,A COMPARISON BETWEEN TWO DISTINCTLY DIFFERENT THINGS IS EXPLICITY INDICATED BY THE WORD “LIKE” OR “AS”.

EXAMPLES

THE PLOUGHING TEAM IS COMPARED TO A MASTERED SHIP.

SHOULDERS OF THE PLOUGHING MAN ARE GLOBED LIKE A FULL STRUNG SAIL.

QUESTION ANSWER 

  Pick out expression like” clicking tongue”. What effect do they create in the poem?

Bright steel pointed sock, sweating team.

All these expressions create beautiful images make the poem lively.

QUESTION ANSWER 

 What make the father “an expert”? what is he an expert?

His pretty long experience in handling the horse and using the

plough makes hum an expert. He is an expert in ploughing.

ASSIGNMENT

PICK OUT THE LINES IN THE POEM WHICH

REFER TO WORK AND THE EFFORT INVOLVED

THANK YOU