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Heaney challenges the stereotype of farming as a simple lifestyle by going into detail about simple jobs such as digging as if it where an art. He plays homage to the farming lifestyle, but realises that it is not for him. By choosing a writing career Heaney is starting his own tradition and leaving the farming behind,

" I'll dig with it"

Tells us that the pen is Heaney's tool, not the spade...

Heaney will not be digging the earth, but using his pen to dig up the words to write his poetry.

In the second poem, "Follower", Heaney is telling the reader about his life as a child always following in his father's footsteps, until he realises his calling is not for farming, but for writing.

Heaney begins this poem comparing his father to a ship, telling the reader to imagine him as a strong powerful man, Heaney is only a small boy and he is looking at his father as this huge man, who seems very strong and able...

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