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 To A May Baby by Winifred Mary Letts


  • killaloe
    May 19 10:58 AM 2007
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    Who can explain the lines of the first verse?

  • I-Like-Rhymes
    May 19, 2007
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    I can not be certain so this is only my personal interpretation.
    This is a poem to welcome a new born child whose birthday coincides with the flowering of tulips.
    When viewing the splendour of a field of tulips, the viewer (the child) may be able to forget that mankind were thrown out of the infinitely more beautiful Garden of Eden. Or, if forgetting is impossible at least they might gain some compensation in the sight of all those flowers.

  • rufina caraid
    May 21, 2007
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    My interpretation of this poem is stating the obvious that spring is a wonderful time of the year made extra special with the birth of a child.
    How lovely!

  • rufina caraid
    May 25, 2007
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    killaloe: I have added a further comment to the poem in answer to your enquiry.
    Vonnie
    http://oldpoetry.com/opoem/45280

    • killaloe
      May 28, 2007
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      Vonnie,thank you very much. A very interesting interpretation, and not far off I'd say.
      Eddie, Killaloe, Ireland
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