A Baby Running Barefoot by D.H.Lawrence.

       A Baby Running Barefoot

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

Answer : 

                David Herbert Lawrence novelist, short story writer, poet, and essayist, was born in England. Lawrence's first published work in 1909. His early poem reflect the influence of Ezra Pound and the imagist movement. D.H. Lawrence's poem 'A Baby Running Barefoot' captures the innocence and spontaneity of childhood. 

           Lawrence exposed the tenderness of children. That little child walks across the grass with bare feet and compares their white tiny feet to white Flowers. It sounds as winsome as Robin's song when a little child plays. As a butterfly sits on the flower for a moment, a small child also sits in one place for a moment. As the wind shadow wanders over the water, the poet wants the little child to wonder to me, so that she can hold my hands and stand on my knee. In this poem, the poet talks about the beauty, tenderness and openness of small children. The poet compares the small child with the elements of nature. Children are naive and innocent.

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

Answer : 

              When i was a child, good things were taught from our upbringing. Earlier we used to live in a joint family so we got to learn a lot from there. As I was the youngest in my family, I was pampered a lot. When I lived with my grandparents, calling a sparrow in my mouth. The days in childhood were very good and peaceful. Went to school, had fun, playing, and we were pampered by our favourite members. As I grew up, the tension came. In higher secondary school, the tension increased. Coming to college, along with tension, some responsibilities and expectations also started to rise. There is no other fun like childhood. From childhood we learn things like, respect, discipline,  caring is sharing etc, in adulthood we used to such things. There have been many good and bad experiences from childhood to adulthood.  When I was young, if I spoke everyone liked it., but now I speak some of them don't like it. But I love my childhood and childhood pictures/memories. 

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