Are You Like Your Parents?

Are you like your parents? How are you different? How are you the same?

As people get older, they often think more about their parents and who they identify with.

Seamus Heaney is a famous Irish poet (Read about him here, on the Nobel Prize website.) He even won the Nobel prize! But even though he was famous and recognized as a great writer, he too wondered how he was like his dad and not like his dad.

Perhaps he wondered whether his dad would see his writing as important.

These feelings are woven into Heaney's poem, "Digging."