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Follower is a poem by Seamus Heaney released in his collection of 1966 Death of a Naturalist. The poem is about how he admired and followed his father.In this poem Heaney reflects and looks back almost nostalgically at an Irish farming through a description of his father’s ploughing expertise. He vividly describes his memories of his father’s abilities and explains to his readers his total uncompromising admiration for his father as the young boy he used to be.