Digging Family Quotes

This is such great line. Why? Because it's the one place in the poem where you get to see the speaker and his father in the same place at the same time. Of course they're separated by a window, but still – there's a connection.

It's amazing how just one image – his father bending over in a garden – can conjure up such an old, vivid memory.

In a way, potato farming brought the family together. Here we see father and son working together to plant. So how do you think the father might feel to find out his son will be a writer?