The Poetry Analysis Of Galway Kinnell

Poetry Analysis The poet Galway Kinnell has a very lighthearted and playful tone in this poem. The speaker also expresses his feelings about his child joining his lover and him in the bed after they have made love. The poem dramatizes the mixed feelings the speaker has in the poem. The speaker feels the need to speak out now because he wants to share his feelings with possibly new parents. The audience of this poem could be new parents. This poem takes place in the speaker’s bedroom after he and his lover is almost caught in the act of making love. The time of day may be night time, since in the poem it mentions darkness. The speaker explains to us what happens while he and his partner tries to makes love in this poem, their child comes into

He keeps the lighthearted, joking tone throughout the poem. He explains how he could snore as loud as a bullhorn and Fergus would only sink deeper into his sleep, (Fergus is their son). The speaker explains how his son sleeps through loud noises, but as soon as he hears heavy breathing he comes running into their room. This continues to show us the playful tone the speaker uses in the poem. The conflicts that are dramatized in this poem is every time the couple tries to make love their son comes in to interrupt. The poet wrote this poem in free form or free verse. “For I can snore like a bullhorn/ or play loud music/ or sit up talking to any reasonably sober Irishman/ and Fergus will only sink deeper into his dreamless sleep/ which goes by all in one flash” (Kinnell 668 Lines 1-5) this line shows that there is no rhyme or rhythm in the poem and also the humorous tone of the speaker. “But let there be that heavy/ or stifled come-cry anywhere in the house/ and he will wrench himself awake/ and make for it on the run- as now, we lie together” (Kinnell 668 Lines 6-9) this line explains to the reader how the child seems to sleep through almost anything but, once he hears heavy breathing he is awake and

It also explains that the child has perhaps grown too big for his baseball pajamas. “And he says “Are you loving and snuggling? May I join”/ He flops down between us and hugs us and snuggles himself to sleep/ his face gleaming with satisfaction at being this very child” (Kinnell 669l Lines 16-19) these lines describe what happens when the little boy enters their bedroom to interrupt them, the tone still remains playful and cheerful. These lines also show the love the boy has for his parents. The free form pattern continues. “In the half darkness we look at each other/ and smile/ and touch across his little, startlingly muscled body- this one whom habit of memory propels to the ground of his/ making/ sleeper only the mortal sounds can sing awake/ this blessing loves gives again into our arms” (Kinnell 669 Lines 20-25) these lines shows the reader how happy the parents are once they look at their son and sees what their love has created, and what a blessing he is to them. There were not much visual