This paradox between the sublime relationship of sex to love and to procreation is all one in this small poem and is the true meaning the poet is conveying.
Fergus is at once the symbol and personification of this in the poem, "this blessing love gives again into our arms." (Meyers __) Referring to the love they have shared for each other and the love that is now their child. The meaning here is at once figurative and literal, here is a sense of spiritual love between them all, and the physical presence of their bodies, both at first as a couple making love and then experiencing their child between them as the symbolic and literal result of that love.
There is also a counter play between the innocence of a child and the experience of an adult. In the first few lines of the poem the poet states how he can snore like a bullhorn and sit up drinking while Fergus sinks, "into his dreamless sleep, which goes by all in one flash." (Meyers __)
The sleep of the innocent and untroubled mind of a child, with no responsibilities to speak of and one who has not yet learned the "value" of guilt. It is interesting to note that in this poem both the innocence of the child and the lustiness of the adults are both considered as a natural part of the universe, both in the poem and the world. This poem also certainly reminds us of the connection between the act of birth and the act of love.
This is summed up in the last stanza of the poem. After the couple has made love, one would think that this interruption between them would be disconcerting and unwanted. Instead, they have just the opposite reaction and the imagery creates a real sense of love and belonging in the reader: "In the half darkness we look at each other / and smile / and touch arms across his little, startling muscled body." (Meyers __) Here we mix the metaphor of warmth and closeness with another physical reference to the child's "muscled body." This reminds us that although there is certainly the spiritual side to the world it cannot exist without the physical...
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