Introduction-
David Herbert Lawrence [11 September 1885- 2 March 1930] was an English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter. He wrote work such as
"Sons and lovers"
"Women in love"
"The Rainbow"
"The Foy"
"The lost girl"
Many of his colleagues described
him as photographer. He was a visionary thinker and he in true sense represents
modernism in English literature.
Poem
When the bare feet of the baby beat
across the grass
The little white feet nod like, white flowers
in the wind,
They poise and run like rippies lapping across the water
:
And the sight
of their white play among the grass
Is like a
little robin's song , winsome,
Or as two white butterflies settle in the cup of one
flower
For a moment,
then the away with a flutter of wings.
I long
for the baby to wander hither to me
Like a
wind-shadow wandering over the water,
So that she
can stand on my khee
With her little
bare feet in my hands,
cool like syringa buds,
Firm and silken like pink young peony flowers.
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.
When baby runs barefooted it this sight which soothes
your eyes. He compares baby's white play with the song of robin. Robin song its
listeners in the same way the sight of baby running barefooted attracts. All
the watchers, you cannot take of your eyes when a child is playing in the Medlow-field.
The poet has compare baby's to feet with two
white butterflies, like two white butter settled in the cup of one flower
baby's barefoot set in the grass. The poet has compare grass with the cup of
flower and two white baby's white feet with two white butterflies. Baby's white
feet also does not stop at one place like white butterfly it run away from one
place to another like white butterfly away with a flutter of wings.
The poet wants baby to wander
around him like wind shadow over the water. He want to enjoy the innocence of
little baby it also happen sometime that some of us do not enjoy childhood like
others and when we see such little baby playing around. We see are innocence in
them more than the babies we enjoy their play as it not only soothe our soul than
the poet compares her little barefoot with syringe buds, and pink peony flowers
baby's buds and firm and silken like pink young peony flowers.
Conclusion
Thus
in this poem the poet describes not only beauty of the baby but her childlike
innocence.
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