A Birthday Themes
Happiness
Happiness and birthdays tend to go hand and hand (at least until you turn thirty). "A Birthday," true to form, is a super-happy poem. It's as though the speaker is singing the lines to us at the to...
Religion
A heady combination of symbolism and biography make "A Birthday" a religious poem. Now, it's never the safest bet to confuse a poem's speaker with the poet him- or herself, but we'll make an except...
Appearances
Towards the end of "A Birthday," the speaker goes a little HGTV on us, what with all the decorating demands. Those specific directions, though, are aimed at sprucing up the joint in preparation for...