A Birthday
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- Created on: 26-05-14 09:52
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- A Birthday
- Imagery
- "A watered shoot"
- "Well watered" suggests lushness and fertility. Represents growth
- "Singing bird"
- To singing bird, vocal expression is as natural as breathing. By speaking of her "heart" in these terms, the speaker suggests that her song forms a natural part of herself.
- Singing birds are often used in Romantic poetry.
- "Doves"
- Represent peace in the Bible.
- "Apple tree...boughs are bent with thickset fruit"
- Suggests that the love she feels in growing, ripe and perfectly natural, simple and pure.
- Suggests intensly innocent and artless feeling.
- "Rainbow shell"
- Mystical,
- Rainvow is symbolic of shimmering beauty anf of God's promise to protect man-kind.
- "A watered shoot"
- Structure
- Hymn
- The two stanzas are in perfect balance, using the chorus like "my heart is" and "my love is come to me".
- Rhyme
- Regular, alternate rhyme shceme adds to the perfect balance on the two stanzas.
- Language
- Possesive pronoun "my" appears frequently, as if love is a possession.
- Shows that the poem is very slef centred.
- "A birthday" is emphasised as we usually say "the birthday".
- "The" birthday of her life is something huge, its very important .
- Possesive pronoun "my" appears frequently, as if love is a possession.
- Imagery
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