After Making Love We Hear Footsteps Analysis
Poetry is able to be interpreted in many different ways. There is not a right or wrong answer in poetry. It is just what you imagine or interpret when reading poems. And it’s no different with the poem “After Making Love We Hear Footsteps” by Galway Kinnell, can be interpreted in many different ways. First, when reading just the title it may seem like forbidden love, after consummating their love for one another, with making love, they soon start to panic over the footsteps they hear in fear of getting caught and being restrained from ever seeing each other, similar to “Romeo and Juliet”, with forbidden love. But then as you actually read the actual poem, you come to find out the footsteps are from their little boy. From reading the poem,