Follower

Question 1

Poet

Answer 1

Seamus Heaney

Question 2

Context

Answer 2

-Seamus Heaney lived from 1939-2013.
-He grew up on his father’s farm in Northern Ireland and so the poem is thought to be autobiographical.
-The poem was published in 1966, within a collection on themes of childhood, identity and rural life.
-Many of his poems praised the concept of hard work and a rural lifestyle.