What is the theme of Seamus Heaney's "The Forge"?

According to my teacher, a theme is the universal truth in a poem. what is the theme of the following poem by seamus heaney. thanks!





All I know is a door into the dark.


Outside, old axles and iron hoops rusting;


Inside, the hammered anvil’s short-pitched ring,


The unpredictable fantail of sparks


Or hiss when a new shoe toughens in water.


The anvil must be somewhat in the centre,


Horned as a unicorn, at one end square,


Set there immoveable: an altar


Where he expends himself in shape and music.


Sometimes, leather-aproned, hairs in his nose,


He leans out on the jamb, recalls a clatter


Of hoofs where traffic is flashing in rows;


Then grunts and goes in, with a slam and a flick


To beat real iron out, to work the bellows.

What is the theme of Seamus Heaney%26#039;s %26quot;The Forge%26quot;?
The theme of the poem is death. structured as single lines to create the tense mood of the poem. In the first stanza, the setting and context is introduced in a way that suggests that the meeting between the two young people is fairly casual. In the second stanza the pace begins to quicken, each lines has three stresses which gives the poem a much faster pace and highlights the nervousness and tension. %26#039;The Forge%26#039; is a descriptive poem in which Heaney celebrates local craftsmanship and explores metaphors of his own art in the local skills. In the octet, Seamus Heaney described the forge and indicates that life back then was good for the black smith, and showed how times had changed and the craft of Blacksmithing is no longer needed in the sestet. In this poem, Seamus Heaney used the work of a blacksmith ...



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