"Digging" Poem #1

This poem was very interesting because the narrator talked of wanting to be a writer instead of a potato farmer like the family, his father and grandfather. He is going against the flow of those days, which was trying to survive and being able to support the family. He makes the fact of potato farming seem like an art his father does "Nicking and slicing neatly, heaving sods" (Line 22). The fact that he sees a beauty in writing, and has no interest in farming amuses me. It must have been really hard back than to go against what everyone else was doing, and instead wanting to write. I am sure that the father did not approve nor the society. We need people like him in this world, for if there were not those people to against the norms of daily life, than how would we be able to experience the beauty of these poems or short stories?