A Study Guide for Christina Rossetti's "A Birthday"
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A Birthday
Christina Rossetti
1862
Introduction
While nearly all of Christina Rossetti’s other love poems focus on themes of loss and isolation, A Birthday,
which was first collected in Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862), articulates the ecstasy of found love. In it, the speaker grasps joyously to identify those images and comparisons which might accurately express her exhilaration. She searches first in the realm of the natural, attempting to equate her emotions with a singing bird,
an apple tree
heavy with fruit, and a rainbow shell
in the sea. But none of these natural wonders can compare: in love, her heart is gladder than all these.
In the second stanza, the speaker abandons the search for the perfect simile, or comparison, and instead demands action. In honor of her figurative birthday,
she demands the construction of a lush dais replete with silk and down,
doves
and peacocks with a hundred eyes,
gold and silver. Such a construction, ornamented with images from nature, can better represent her love because it is a lasting artifact, like poet John Keats’ Grecian urn in his Ode on a Grecian Urn.
Unlike nature, which perishes, the dais will always mark the day in which love has come
to the