Follower

2. The quiet sound the father uses to command the horses — a word that imitates the sound itself.
5. The name for a four-line stanza — the building block of this poem's structure.
6. The onomatopoeic word that describes the child's persistent, unhelpful noise.
10. What the speaker does as a child, trailing after his father, and then the father does it when he is older.
11. The speaker remembers how he ________ his father.

1. A comparison using 'like' or 'as' — the technique used to describe the father's shoulders.
3. The sudden shift or 'turn' near the end of the poem where the roles of father and son are reversed.
4. The object Heaney compares the father's shoulders to in the opening simile.
7. The farming tool the father expertly controls throughout the poem.
8. The word the speaker uses to describe himself as a child, getting in the way and tripping constantly.
9. The word used for both the child tripping in the field and the ageing father in the final lines.
10. The groove cut into the earth by the plough — the father maps it 'exactly'.