Discussion Groups / English Usage / June 2008

Hello:

The "half-doors," does it have any connotations in such a context?

Also,
"I would pull hay for comfort"
does it mean
"I would pull hay __under/over me__ for comfort?"

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Seamus Heaney (1939-).
“Fodder”
from Opened Ground: Poems 1966-1996 (1998), p. 45

Or, as we said,
fother, I open
my arms for it
again. But first

to draw from the tight
vise of a stack
the weathered eaves
of the stack itself

falling at your feet,
last summer's tumbled
swathes of grass
and meadowsweet

multiple as loaves
and fishes, a bundle
tossed over half-doors
or into mucky gaps.

These long nights
I would pull hay
for comfort, anything
to bed the stall.
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Thanks.
Marius Hancu