A Baby Running Barefoot

A Baby Running Barefoot
David Herbert Lawrence

About the auther:

            David Herbert Lawrence(11 September 1885 - 1930) was an English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter who published as D.H.Lawrence. His collected works represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanizing effects of modernity and industrialization. In them, Lawrence confronts issues relating to emotional health and vitality, spontaneity, and instinct.

              Lawrence's opinions earned him many enemies and he endured official persecution, censorship, and misrepresentation of his creative work throughout the second half life, much of which he spent in a voluntary exile which he called his "savage pilgrimage. At the time of his death, his death, his public reputation was that of a pornographer who had wasted his considerable talents. E.M.Foster, in an obituary notice, challenged this widely held view, describing him as, "The greatest imaginative novelist of our generation.' later, the influential Cambridge critic F.R.Leavis championed both his artistic integrity and his moral seriousness, placing much of Lawrence's fiction within the canonical "great tradition" of the English novel. Lawrence is now valued by many as a visionary thinker and significant representative of modernism in English Literature.

Summery of the poem:

                  When you look back and see these you will be amazed at how small your six foot tall son was when he was born. as parents we remain enchanted by baby's tiny hands and feet. we are mystified at how they can be so small. When you look at your babies tiny toes perhaps because of something you think you see you decide that one of your twins will be a dancer while the other will be athlete. recalling your first child, who seemed to have such little feet, with such extra tiny toes, you remember that then you weren't even ready to imagine what they were going to be like when they grew up.

           

                Our fascination with baby's tiny feet is why we take his or her first pair or shoes and bronze them. This lets you keep them forever on the mantle place in your living room or on the dresser in your bedroom. Some proud parents even put them on their desks at work.You can look at them and see your child toddling along in their first pair  of shoes.  What magic memories those are. maybe you will need to bronze a second pair so that your spouse has one to put where they work, or play, as well one way to keep babies tiny feet forever ensconced in your memory is to make a keepsake book.

                 Using non toxic washable inks or paints take baby's foot prints and put them in this book you are putting together to hold the memories of babies beaning. Then you may want to make a footprint poem to put either in, the book or as a a print to hang on baby's nursery wall . You can do this yourself or have them done by the many companies available to write the touching poems for you.You can easily write one yourself as you speck words your heart that expresses your love. How contented baby has made you feel and as you look in the crib at  the wigging giggling little person who has come into your life you can not help but want to show them your happiness by expressing it in verse.

                 One option is to decorate baby's room with poems, photos and little reminders of their earliest days so that as that as your see baby grows you will be able to see the wondrous accomplishments as baby begins to crawl and then take baby steps with those darling little feet.