Baby Running Barefoot by D. H. Lawrence

                                Baby Running Barefoot by D. H. Lawrence

A Baby Running by D. H. Lawrence

Question-1 What's your understanding of the poem? Write it in detail. 

Answer:

         

                   David Herbert Lawrence was one of the prominent figures of the age. He was the person who believe in 'art for art sake' Hus works include "sons and lovers" 

                  The poem ''baby running barefoot'' is written by D h Lawrence which expresses the young child who is wandering in the garden. This poem also expresses the desire of the poet to play with the baby looking beautiful while running across the grass, the garden and the flower bets. The baby enjoying her childhood and the innocence is reflected on her face. 

             Natural imagery and elements are here supporting of child's tenderness because the innocence and beauty of child's activity are nothing but part and parcel of nature. Not only that but the poet uses personification like simile's like :

-White flowers in the wind 

-Ripples lapping across the water 

-Butterfly in the cup of flower

-Like A little Robinsons

-Cool like suringa birds

-Young peony flowers

                The central theme of the poem is the innocent movement of the baby who is running on barefoot. She is enjoying her own ways and activities which is beautifully compared with the elements of the nature the poet shares his emotions and intimacy with a child who always produces some sympathy and attraction towards different activities. 

            In the poem ''baby running barefoot'' from the first line define the poet compare in the baby's movement with the nature when he saying that "he feels baby's feet as white as white flowers nodding in the wind". It is doubtless that the poet cannot resist himself pressing the baby when he says that the poise and run look like a ripples lapping across the water as well as when the poet says that the baby un winsome? Like little Robinsons.

           To the poet, the baby's feet seems like white butterfly who are settled in a cup of flower or sometimes the poet imagines baby's feet like a wind shadow running / wondering passing over the water. The last sentence is describe the poets emotions when he is holding her little bare feet as he feels that the baby's  feet are like suringa birds and like pink young peony flowers.

              To sum up we can say that in the world of roughness or harshness. The poet is attracted and tended to innocence and tenderness. The bareness of the modern world is implicitly disgusted by the tenderness and delicacy of child's movement having barefoot which is time and again compared with the winsome elements of Nature.

Question -2 How do you see your own journey from childhood to adulthood? 

Answer:

              My journey from childhood to adulthood has been very difficult.

              When I was young, I was like a child till 8th standard.  In which I didn't find any tension, any problem etc. but since 9th standard my journey became little - little difficult and after coming to college my journey became very difficult because many problems have to be faced.  There are also many problems that make us loose from the body.

             A lot of experiences happened. But I have learned something from the experiences I have had. Many people have tried to tear me down. But people who have done such things don't know that we don't consider anyone, time is good for them today, tomorrow will be good for me too.

              Similarly, I have found my journey from childhood to adulthood difficult. And it still looks like it's going to be very difficult going forward.