Adapted poem context: The speaker holds a pen and watches his father digging. The scene brings back memories of potato digging from years earlier, and the speaker describes the father's work with admiration while contrasting that physical craft with his own work as a writer. Adapted CTET source question 101: The poetic devices in line 2 and line 4 are :

1. metaphor and simile
2. metaphor and personification
3. simile and alliteration
4. hyperbole and metaphor