I feel that the poem Digging is about someone that has a great relationship with there father. It shows in this poem that he really cares for what his family did to get what they wanted in the way of life. In the poem it talks about a pen in relation with a shade. When i was reading this poem it seemed that this boy was talked about a memory that had happened when he was younger watching his father and grandfather work for there money. How they were down on there hands and knee doing hard work to get the money that would let there family live a pretty good life.
The title Digging seems to me that the son of the father that did really hard work to support his family was not doing what his father had to do when he was a young child, at which he does he digging=making a living by using a pen to do his work and that he doesn't have to be down on the ground working to support his family but is every proud to say that his father and grandfather were strong men for what they had to do for there family and now he has to do work with a pen to support his family. I really enjoyed that reading for this poem, it was really interesting how you can pick this from a poem like this and understand it more.