a) The poem is about a little boy who looks up to his father (1mark) who is a farmer as his role model. He wants to follow his footsteps/admires him so much that he too wants to be a farmer when he grows up.
b) The persona’s attitude towards his father is of admiration / love adoration. He says. ‘I wanted to grow up tough.’ He wants to do the things his father so skillfully did.
c) Simile (1mark) His shoulders globed like a full sail strung repetition ‘fell sometimes. Sometimes he rode
d) Nostalgic / longing The person remembers the good old days when he used to admire his father’s activities.
e) Powerful (1mark) he appeared powerful and vast to the narrator with his shoulders like a full sail strung between the shafts and the furrows’
skilled he controlled the horses merely by clicking his tongue, showing how skilled he is
f) The irony in the last stanza is that the persona finds his father an irritant yet his father put up with him when he was a boy. (The contrasting word ‘yet’ is key)
g) Yelling
h) The son followed his father
In the later years the father followed the son.
Musyoxx answered the question on March 16, 2018 at 16:55
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