A Birthday- Christina Rosetti Notes

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A Birthday - Christina Rosetti A Birthday Christina Rossetti Summary: The writer expresses her love towards another person in the form of a poem. She does this by expressing its innocence, magic and the surrealism that only people in love can experience. She wishes to express the fact that love is all you ever need, and that she’d be willing to do anything for her love and that it is only then that you start to realize who you are, and that it is the day when your life actually begins, thus the title “A Birthday” Significant poetic devices and their significance (eg: Metaphors, symbols, rhyme scheme, form, imagery, repetition… etc) Structure level analysis 1. The use of an Octave. This means that each stanza has eight lines. a. This makes the poem look more fluid as the reader does not have to pause in his reading very much to switch to the next stanza. This makes it easier for the poet to get her point across, as love is usually one of those concepts which is very hard to express onto the reader as it comes in many forms, many of which are different depending on the poem. Therefore trying to make the reader see it your way is very hard so the reading should be as easy as possible. The second stanza is only there to exaggerate on another way that one can view her love as. 2. Rhyme on every second line. Rhyming on every line would become annoying while rhyming on every second line would be considered as enjoyable or even relaxing. The fact that it is on the second line also gives a sense of dependency, indicating that love is something you can depend on in every time of stress. The fact that she does this also makes it look that she did the work seamlessly, perhaps a tool used by the poet to demonstrate the fact that when you are in love, everything you do suddenly becomes so simple, which can also explain why every syllable and every
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