My favorite poem

http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/christina_rossetti/poems/16452.html

A Birthday

By Christina Rossetti

A Birthday by Christina Rossetti

My heart is like a singing bird

Whose nest is in a water'd shoot;

My heart is like an apple-tree

Whose boughs are bent with thickset fruit;

My heart is like a rainbow shell

That paddles in a halcyon sea;

My heart is gladder than all these

Because my love is come to me.

Raise me a dais of silk and down;

Hang it with vair and purple dyes;

Carve it in doves and pomegranates,

And peacocks with a hundred eyes;

Work it in gold and silver grapes,

In leaves and silver fleurs-de-lys;

Because the birthday of my life

Is come, my love is come to me.

I like this poem about birthday made by Christina Rossetti. I became 20 last week and I remember the really happy and delighted feelings I had that day.

This poem expresses the feelings of birthday person by colorful things in the natural world. When I read this poem, suddenly a lot of animals, scenery, colors, seeds and berries came to my mind and my heart came to throb with the greatest happiness as I had on my birthday.

I think it is really difficult to express and show our real feelings or what we are thinking to others. But this poem made me imagine the birthday person’s feelings clearly and interestingly. So I want try describing what I am thinking and feeling by writing poem, too!!

Thank you:)