"A Baby Running Barefoot"
D. H. Lawrence
In the poem "A baby running
barefoot" by D.H. Lawrence uses imagery to describe how the baby is
running around beautifully and barefooted.
The poem is spoken in the voice
of a first person narrator who is watching a female baby run across the grass.
The narrator uses similes and metaphors that describe the baby's feet by
comparing them to aspects of the natural world such as butterflies, flowers,
and water.
In the first line the
poet talks about the "Barefeet" of baby who runs across the
grass. He then tells about her little white feet, nod like the flower, nod in
the wind he beautifully had described. How a baby child runs across the grass
out of innocence to watch baby running across medowfield is the most beautiful
sight D.H.Lawrence brilliantly and beautifully has captured the beauty of
little baby's play in his poem.
The narrator wishes the the baby would run
over to him and stand on his knee so that he could "feel her feet in
either hand." The major theme of the poem is the association of infancy
with innocence and the natural world and the narrator's desire to recapture
both. The narrator's desire to feel the baby's feet, despite its rather
disconcerting sense of pedophilia married to podophilia, should be read as
a desire to return to the state of nature the baby represents.
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