We are introduced into the scene with the author sitting at his desk in his room, when he is distracted by his father outside working in the flowerbed

. He then goes into describing each detail that he sees and hears: clear rasping sound, when the spade sinks into gravelly ground, till his straining rump, stooping in rhythm through potato drills. He describes it as an art and not just as somebody working in the flowerbed. By this I take it as the author showing great respect for his father and what he does. The author is then brought back to the days when he helped his father. In verse four he goes into such a detail as to think that the feeling that he gets from it lets him know he is alive and loves farming. By verse five he tells us that his father is really good at what he does and makes a comparison of him to his grandfather, whom also is really good at farming.

In verse seven the author starts to develop his actual feelings about his father and grandfathers' line of work as it is incorporated into his life. In the first three lines of verse seven he states that he has done the work and knows how to do it well, but the last sentence, But I've no spade to follow men like them, he makes it obvious that he doesn't have the heart to follow the greatness of his fathers' and grandfathers' farming. The first and last verses are what tell the readers that the auth

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Approximate Word count = 830
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)