author: diana wallace

... lesbian as 'ghosted' by culture, Waters shows how we may now see the lesbian, but still fail to see the servant in front of us. Invoking the metaphor of the ghost as a figure for the women prisoners (20), spinsters (58) and Margaret ...

Diana Wallace. in Seamus Heaney's 'Follower'.12 Both poems depict a physical act of labour – ploughing in 'Follower', carpentry in 'Desk' – which is contrasted with and becomes a metaphor for poetry. In 'Desk', the poet's act of 're ...