Follower Themes

Oh, papa—this little dude really and truly looks up to his dad. Told through his eyes, his father is the most magnificent plowman to have ever walked the face of the earth, and man, does he want...

Though the saying, "like father like son" might not perfectly apply to these two (the father seems to be equipped with a set of strengths and skills that the son exhibits no evidence of having), th...

In "Follower," the speaker's father is the model of strength and skill. According to his son, he's an absolute expert with the plow. And plowing, especially the horse-drawn kind, is no easy work. I...

The speaker of "Follower" seems pretty young for most of the poem—he's looking into the past when he was a child, following his dad around the field as he plowed. Although he doesn't show any nat...