Very well explained sir ... I was preparing for my finals and got this video .It will be also helpful if you make another video about the poem A Dirge by the same poet ....thank you from India 🙂
I think the extravagant imagery and rapt tone suggest that this the "birthday" refers to Rossetti's belief in, and longing for the second coming of Christ. The tone also lends itself to secular celebration, hence the poem's popularity as a celebration of more earthly birthdays.
I think it is to the extent that, like many of CR's poems, there is a narrative viewpoint expressed in the first person. It's tempting to take that subjective viewpoint to be Rossetti herself, but she manages to make the ideas in this poem (and others) more universal than simply self-reflective accounts of her own experience - thereby allowing readers to make their own subjective connections to the work, even now for you and I, 160 years after she wrote it 😊
Bless his soul, he’ll be the reason I pass these exams!
You can do it!
Great in depth analysis 👍
Thanks for feedback, glad it was helpful!
Very well explained sir ... I was preparing for my finals and got this video .It will be also helpful if you make another video about the poem A Dirge by the same poet ....thank you from India 🙂
Thank you, I'm really glad it was useful. When are you examined on 'The Dirge'?
@@MrBenAckland In september
really helped with my a level revision thank you !
Really glad to hear it. Good luck with it all
Thank you for this clear analysis.
Happy it was helpful!
Well analysed.
Thanks - hope it was useful
You grabbed my attention🤩 thank u sir!! From India...
My pleasure! Hi from London.
Really helpful, thankyou!
Glad it was useful
What might be the message of this poem pls
I think the extravagant imagery and rapt tone suggest that this the "birthday" refers to Rossetti's belief in, and longing for the second coming of Christ. The tone also lends itself to secular celebration, hence the poem's popularity as a celebration of more earthly birthdays.
Thank you 🙏☺️
You're welcome 🙂
Does this poem consider as subjective poem and to what extent?
I think it is to the extent that, like many of CR's poems, there is a narrative viewpoint expressed in the first person. It's tempting to take that subjective viewpoint to be Rossetti herself, but she manages to make the ideas in this poem (and others) more universal than simply self-reflective accounts of her own experience - thereby allowing readers to make their own subjective connections to the work, even now for you and I, 160 years after she wrote it 😊
@@MrBenAckland thanks sir, can i get your phone number? I'm a student college from iraq study english language.