Glanmore

Glanmore Glanmore Sonnets IV There are many important elements within any given poem. Seamus Heaney’s poem, “Glanmore Sonnets IV,” is of no exception to this idea. Poetry is, more or less, up for interpretation. Most poetry is not written like a novel; it does not tell a specific story and sometimes fails to give you all of the details you need to decipher it. A poem is there for the reader to interpret on his or her own. After recently reading “Glanmore Sonnets IV” by Heaney I have taken my own understanding of it. This perception could be completely different from any one of my classmates’ understandings, which is reasonably acceptable. To obtain an insightful interpretation of a poem’s content, many elements must be considered. Poetic terms, tone, imagery, language, situation, rhyme scheme and the title’s significance are all elements to deem important when demystifying a poem. I used to lie with an ear to the line For that way, they said, there should come a sound Escaping ahead, an iron tune Of flange and piston pitched along the ground. But I never heard that. Always, instead, Struck couplings and shuntings two miles away Lifted over the woods. The head Of a horse swirled back from a gate, a poem, sonnet, speaker, form, line, train, lines, two, rhymes, rhyme, last, heaney, different, poetry, english, back, sonnets, situation, over, italian, iron, heard, first, ear, woods, tune, true, tracks, tone, terms, spensenan, sentence, poetic, must, five, elements