Baby Song

Question 0

Form?

Answer 0

Perspective of new born baby.

•more pathos for baby

Question 1

Meaning?

Answer 1

Misses his home inside his mother, life is short.

Home vs time

Question 2

Language?

Answer 2

• “fall…lighted”= unnatural, harshness of reality
• “warm” vs “raging”= contrast between inside and outside mother
• “time roars”= personification of time warning baby it’s going to run out

Question 3

Imagery?

Answer 3

• womb extended metaphor of home

* last line= metaphor of all of life beginning at birth, time starting inevitably

Question 4

Rhyme scheme?

Answer 4

• couplets= bond with mother, pace of a heart beat
• ^ link to title= baby stopping crying when hearing a heartbeat
• nursery rhyme

Question 5

Tone?

Answer 5

• disappointment of being born
• anger of having no choice in birth
• regret of leaving womb

Question 6

Structure?

Answer 6

• perfect stanzas= simplicity of childhood

* 2 line stanzas= intimacy between mother and baby

Question 7

Links?

Answer 7

• AJ+MFPM= yearning to go back home

* AUTO= 2 line stanzas