poem- "A Baby Running Barfoo"t by D.H Lawrence

My view about poem A Baby Running Barefoot

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.