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The poem "After Making Love We Hear Footsteps", was published in 1980 by Galway Kinnell. He discusses the love relationship between both parent and child. In my point of view, the most evocative part in this poem is the imagery. Kinnell uses free-verse and stanzas to enhance the themes of love and sex, which are essential to the universal connection.

Throughout the poem, Kinnell describes the relationship between the child and its' parents. Each stanza gives a bright insight of how the footsteps can be heard after lovemaking is over. Each line in the poem creates and carefully explains a new setting. The speaker is describing the parent's feelings towards their child after he learns that he is scared in such a big house, but he is still able to make love with his partner. He figured that his child wouldn't come out of the room when he stated "and Fergus will only sink deeper" (l. 4).

There are two partners who are having a sexual intercourse with each other, while there is a child on the other side of the house who is frightened and woke up from their sleep. The parents were interrupted by their child. Even though all of this is happened in the poem, the speaker didn’t go straight to the scene of the sexual act.

In lines 1-5, the speaker begins to explain how they are other things that can be done before or after making love. "For I can snore like a bullhorn/or play loud music/or sit up talking with any reasonably sober Irishman/and Fergus will only sink deeper/into his dreamless sleep, which goes by all in one flash" (1. 1-5). He included a simile within this first stanza by saying "For I can snore like bullhorn". In my opinion, it seemed as though Kinnell wanted us to imagine the speaker as a huge person. The speaker is being compared to the bullhorn.

In lines 6-10, the speaker reader kind of gives us a notice that he is waiting for his son, Fergus, to get up. The speaker heard footsteps right after he and his partner were finished...