Christina Rossetti’s “A Birthday”
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Christina Rossetti’s “A Birthday” by Chalbert
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SOAPSTONE:
S: “My”- a person who fell in love
O: to tell everyone how happy they are because they have found their true love
A: everyday people
P: everyone can find true love, just wait for it to come to you
S: Love
Tone: Happy/joyful- they have found their true love
Christina Rossetti’s “A Birthday” Annotated
My heart is like a singing bird
Whose nest is in a watered shoot;
My heart is like an apple-tree
Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit;
My heart is like a rainbow shell
That paddles in a halcyon sea;
My heart is gladder than all these
Because my love is come to me.
Raise me a dais of silk and down;
Hang it with vair and purple dyes;
Carve it in doves and pomegranates,
And peacocks with a hundred eyes;
Work it in gold and silver grapes,
In leaves and silver fleurs-de-lys;
Because the birthday of my life
Is come, my love is come to me.