"A Call," by Seamus Heaney
Author: Seamus Heaney
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‘Hold on,’ she said, ‘I’ll just run out and get him.
The weather here’s so good, he took the chance
To do a bit of weeding.’
So I saw him
Down on his hands and knees beside the leek rig,
Touching, inspecting, separating one
Stalk from the other, gently pulling up
Everything not tapered, frail and leafless,
Pleased to feel each little weed-root break,
But rueful also…
The speaker makes this dramatic by starting it with a incomplete sentence. The first line makes the reader even more interested in what the poem could mean or what the poem is talking about. At the end it leaves the reader in a cliffhanger by not finishing the sentence and just ending it with a … which is a continuation.
by the way the speaker describes the anonymous “him”, we, the readers can learn little details about him, like how he is thorough and detail oriented since he is touching, observing and seperating every single stalk, instead of just randomly pulling out plants like a careless person would
This paragraph also makes me wonder who this person is and what the relationship they have with the speaker. The reader doesn’t know nothing about this anonymous “him”.
Then found myself listening to
The amplified grave ticking of hall clocks
Where the phone lay unattended in a calm
Of mirror glass and sunstruck pendulums…
The speaker seems to be in a bubble of calm right before he, whoever he is answers
And found myself then thinking: if it were nowadays,
This is how Death would summon Everyman.
Next thing he spoke and I nearly said I loved him.
The speaker is in love with this man, from what I can tell and is scared of it slipping out, but maybe she subconsciously wants him to know, which is why she called him, and why she almost said she loved him
Throughout the whole poem the speaker describes this man they is calling. The speaker is thinking about what the man’s reaction would be while waiting for him to pick up. Then when he does pick up the speaker realizes how she really had this instinct to tell him how he/she feels about him.
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