"Love is that condition in which another person's happiness is essential for your own", said Robert Heinlein (YourTango). Affirmative, love can be truly powerful where the value of the love of others is the greatest ecstasy of life. Love is existence everywhere around us; we are born to love and we love to die with the love of family, lovers and friends. In Galway Kinnell's poem "After Making Love We Hear Footsteps" Kinnell writes about the love between parents and children, and it was published in 1980. Kinnell was born in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. He is married and has a son and two daughters, so the poem "After making love we hear the footsteps" refers to his married life as he mentions his son, Fergus, in the poem. Galway Kinnell is an excellent poet because his poems are always “connected to the experiences of everyday life” (Poetry Foundation). The main theme of this poem is that the speaker of the poem portrays a serious and resentful attitude towards the speaker's son by interrupting their act of passion, but ultimately leads to a feeling of commitment and innocence when the speaker realizes that a child's love is significantly more important than sex. In “After Making Love We Hear Footsteps,” Galway Kinnell uses tone, diction, and irony to express the humorous and admiring view of sex, and also the effects of children on sexual relationships. The beginning of the poem begins with a humorous tone. Kinnell begins his poem with the simile "snoring like a megaphone", an "Irish", or playing "loud music" to express the idea of ​​something that is really loud and loud, but still fails to wake the son unlike the child. ability to wake up with “heavy breathing” and “crying” (lines 1-7). The tone that... in the center of the paper ......hosts everywhere, but the context around it is used differently and serves as an important reference to summarize the poem. “Love gives again in our arms” means that love returns Fergus to his parents on these evenings. The way I came to see that love returns to where it originated was through the thick body of detail to where the poem really spoke. Works Cited Belkin, Lisa. "Sexual life". NYTimes.com The New York Times. 09 February 2011. Web. 01 April 2014. "Galway Kinnell". The Poetry Foundation. Poetry Foundation, nd Web. 26 March 2014. Kinnell, Galway. "After making love we hear footsteps." Norton's introduction to literature. Portable 10th ed. Ed. Alison Booth and Kelly J. Mays. New York: Norton, 2011. 490-491. Print.YourTango. “50 Famous Quotes About Love from Authors, Artists, Movies, and More.” Your tango, your best love life. Your Tango. Network. March 26. 2014.