Sucess is different to everyone?

 Sucess is different to everyone. Some people think success is money and how much you make others base is off the knowledge you gain. In the poem "Digging" by Seamus Heaney he explains how his father and grandfather worked on a farm and how them doing that was a form of success. The hard work they put in towards there farm is success to them because they built it up from the ground up. In the poem it states, "By God, the old man could handle a spade. Just like his old man"(15/16). This quote states how his father could farm very well just like his father or the authors grandfather that taught him. This then shows how he treats success as the hard work put into the farm or the job in this case. In the poem it also states, "My father, digging. I look down" (5). The author watched his father work and his techniques to become as good as him. Sucess in this poem is based off hard work and the success is the result of the hard work that was put in. This poem is not the ordinary definition of success. The author portrays success in this poem or at least I portray it as hard labor allows success to be made. The fact that the father and his grandfather farmed potatoes to maintain a lifestyle of living is a form of success. They were able to make a living out of farming allowing them to become successful providing a stable life for each one of them.