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I began to be tense as a voyeur. | I began to be tense as a voyeur. | ||
After eleven years | After eleven years I was composing | ||
Love-letters again, broaching the “wife”{{refn|To “broach” a cask is to open it; Heaney likens rediscovering desire to uncorking stored love or memory. This sensual metaphor underscores the poem’s fusion of domestic intimacy and erotic vitality.}} {{ln|10}} | Love-letters again, broaching the “wife”{{refn|To “broach” a cask is to open it; Heaney likens rediscovering desire to uncorking stored love or memory. This sensual metaphor underscores the poem’s fusion of domestic intimacy and erotic vitality.}} {{ln|10}} | ||
Like a stored cask, as if its slender vowel | Like a stored cask, as if its slender vowel | ||