Galway Kinnell’s ability to express the multifaceted process of being lovers and parents within each stanza of this poem creates a paramount understanding, therefore sanctioning one line to carry on the setting and tone to the next. Kinnell’s dramatics on his references to acquainted engagements of a married couple permits the reader to visualize the scene as the narrator and his wife loll in bed, “after making love, quiet, touching along the length of our bodies” (10). Two of the most vigorous forms regarding love that a human can experience remain that of a soul mate and that of being a parent. Kinnell is able to capture the raw essence of these two types of love in his poem "After Making Love We Hear Footsteps" (539). The interpretation of how these footsteps come about does not just speak of a frightened child climbing into bed with his parents, but of the complex pattern that the author uses to explain the circumstances which occur throughout the poem. …show more content…
This poem is full of imagery and emotions that are easily understandable and give a clear image of the close relationship of a married couple that equals “this blessing love give again into our arms” (26). In the first stanza, it is well-defined that the speaker is a male, the husband describing his son’s, Fergus, sleep patterns. Fergus can slumber through his father’s snoring or other loud occurrences, however, when he hears the sounds of lovemaking, he emerges in his parent’s bedroom as if the sounds of his conception pull him back, as if magnetized, to his fundamental source of the pristine love that created