Read the poem given below and answer the questions (100 - 105) that follow :
Between my finger and my thumb
The squat pen rests: snug as a gun.
Under my window, a clean rasping sound
When the spade sings into gravelly ground.
My father, digging, I look down
Till his straining rump among the flowerbeds
Bends low, comes up twenty years away
Stooping in rhythm through potato drills,
Where he was digging
The coarse boot nestled on the lug, the shaft
Against the inside knee was levered firmly.
He rooted out tall tops, buried the bright edge deep.
To scatter new potatoes that we picked,
Loving their cool hardness in our hands.

How does the speaker’s father feel about his son’s choice of career ?

Correct Answer: The poem doesn’t make it clear.

Step-by-step Explanation:

1. Analyze the Poem Content:
The given excerpt is from Seamus Heaney's poem "Digging". In this section, the speaker describes watching his father dig in the garden among the flowerbeds, recalling his father's work in the potato drills twenty years earlier.

2. Evaluate the Speaker's Perspective vs. The Father's Perspective:
The speaker contrasts his own tool (the "squat pen") with his father's tool (the spade). While the speaker reflects on his father's skill and labor, the excerpt focuses purely on the speaker's memories and observations of his father digging.

3. Determine the Father's Feelings:
There is no line or implication in the given text revealing how the father reacts to or feels about the speaker's decision to write (hold a pen) instead of farming/digging. The father's perspective on his son's career path is not mentioned or addressed in the poem.

4. Conclusion:
Therefore, the poem doesn’t make it clear how the speaker’s father feels about his son’s choice of career.