Give the significance of using beautiful things in the poem cradle song?
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In stanza 1, the poet begins creating imaginations from different beautiful places. According to her, she has brought a little lovely dream with shining and glittering dews in the form of a beautiful song for her child from groves (a group of trees) of spice,the field of rice and from the stream full of lotus flowers.
All these places are picturesque and quite attractive. The garden of spices is green, the field of rice is golden and stream full of lotus flowers is pink. These all are sensory images which create a visual effect. Not only the child but the audience can feel the beauty of these places by reading the poem.
Stanza 2
In the second stanza, the poet asks the child to shut his eyes and dream wild fire-fiies (glow-worms) which dance through the fairy neem. Neem tree is symbolised as fairy either because it is considered holy and sacred in Hinduism or because it looks like a fairy in the night.
The poet then says that she has stolen a little lovely dream from the poppy-bole whose flower is bright and colourful. The second stanza shows that the child is lost in the beautiful imaginations created by his mother for him.
The images used like fairy neemand poppy-bole indicate mother’s desire for her child to sleep sound. Neem tree has medicinal properties and Poppy plant has a sleep-producing effect upon the eyes.
Stanza 3
In the third and the final stanza, the child is lost in the imaginations and ultimately gone to sleep. His mother now bids him final good-night in golden night laden with the stars that are gleaming around him.
The golden night can be simply the night which seems to be golden because of stars in the sky or it can also refer to the dreams which the child will see after sleeping. She then presses her hands gently on him and wishes him to sleep as well as dream well.
All these places are picturesque and quite attractive. The garden of spices is green, the field of rice is golden and stream full of lotus flowers is pink. These all are sensory images which create a visual effect. Not only the child but the audience can feel the beauty of these places by reading the poem.
Stanza 2
In the second stanza, the poet asks the child to shut his eyes and dream wild fire-fiies (glow-worms) which dance through the fairy neem. Neem tree is symbolised as fairy either because it is considered holy and sacred in Hinduism or because it looks like a fairy in the night.
The poet then says that she has stolen a little lovely dream from the poppy-bole whose flower is bright and colourful. The second stanza shows that the child is lost in the beautiful imaginations created by his mother for him.
The images used like fairy neemand poppy-bole indicate mother’s desire for her child to sleep sound. Neem tree has medicinal properties and Poppy plant has a sleep-producing effect upon the eyes.
Stanza 3
In the third and the final stanza, the child is lost in the imaginations and ultimately gone to sleep. His mother now bids him final good-night in golden night laden with the stars that are gleaming around him.
The golden night can be simply the night which seems to be golden because of stars in the sky or it can also refer to the dreams which the child will see after sleeping. She then presses her hands gently on him and wishes him to sleep as well as dream well.
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The poet uses beautiful things in the poem cradle song so that the baby would have beautiful imaginations in he/she dreams.
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