Old Age in An Old Mans Winter Night and Follower Essay -- Robert Fros

Old Age in An Old Mans overwinter Night and Follower This poem has a very direct title which intices the audience to findout more and is very similar to that of a Hollywood movie and usesplain language.From the 1st ancestry we can see the sons possessiveness of his fatherfrom the words My we also know it is referring to the past from thetense of the word worked we also find out that he works on a farm.In the next 3 lines we can see the poets admiration for his father bythe way he talks intimately the size of the man globed like a full sailstrung and his strength.We see that his father was a real expert at his job by the way he cancontrol horses with his tongue, heaneys intention was to show us themans expertise and how he was in full control, it also shows us howhard the horses were workings for him.In the next stanza on the 1st line Heaney calls his father an expertthen pauses for affect to let it sink in, this is to show us the manspower and also the pure admiration from his s on. In the next 2 lineswe are again t senior about how good he was at his job sod rolled everyplacewithout breaking the language which is used to the highest degree makes it seemeffortless for the man.In the next stansa we see Heaneys use of enjanment with a run on line turned around And back into the land which reflects the movementof the plough. In the 3rd line we can see his father narrowed andangled at the ground employ only his skill, not instruments, thismakes him appear very wise and we can see that the boy is once againadmiring his skills.In the next stansa we can see how the boy is clumsy in comparison tohis father I stumbled in his hobnailed wake we also see hisclumsiness from the word fell in the... ...the old man and his quality of life.After reading both poems we are given 2 various views on old age by2 different poets. In Robert Frosts a lot of pity is felt for the oldage and the poet seems to be very concerned about the quality of lifebeing lived by the old man, he sympathises with the loneliness andfeels sorry for the old man.Heaney seems to have a quite a different view on old age and we almostfeel as if he is annoyed at his father for not being able to care forhimself now, he is frustrated that the man whom he endlessly looked up tohas now become frail and now follows him around opposed to when he wasa child.Out of the 2 poems I prefer Robert Frosts An Old Mans Winter Nightas I believe that it has much more meaning to it and it really getsinto the life of the old man and gets sympathy from the reader andgets them involved.