"Baby Running with Barefoot"

“Baby Running Barefoot”

-         D. H. Lawrence

About the writer:

    D. H. Lawrence was a playwright, essayist, literary critic and a painter. He wrote works such as “Sons and Lowers”, “Woman in Law”, “The Rainbow”, and “The Fox”, etc. Many of his colleagues describe him as phonographer. 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 ripples 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 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 knee

With her little bare feet in my hands,

Cool like syringe buds,

Firm and silken like pink young peony flowers.

About the Poem:

    In the first line the poet talks about “the barefoot” of baby who runs across the grass. When baby runs barefooted it is the sight which soothens your eyes.

     He compares baby’s Play with the song of robin. Robin’s song attracts its listeners in the same way the sight of baby running barefooted attracts all watchers.

     The poet has compared the grass with cup of flower and baby’s white feet with two white butterflies. Poet charmed by the playing of baby.

He compared his childhood with innocent baby’s playing. Thus, in this poem the poet describes not only beauty of the baby but her childlike innocence.

      D. H. Lawrence much talked by the people because of his controversial writing. But this poem is totally different from that. So, maybe he tries to relief himself from the politics of society. Maybe that’s why he wrote this poem.