Short Summary of Inniskeen Road: July Evening by Patrick Kavanagh
The poem is suggestive of the poet’s loneliness and isolation in the society he lives in. A typical small town scene sets the background of the poem where the people living are involved in same events.People moving on bicycles in flocks and village dance being performed in a shelter or hall is a common scene that creates an amiable picture of a summer evening in the small towns. The poet stands like a detached spectator watching all these activities. Though the dance is an informal, normal event yet the poet is not a part of the dance that is going on in Billy Bernnan’s barn.The fact that there is an intellectual divide between the people of Inskeen and the poet is suggest in the phrase’ half –talk code’. It means…
