Seventh Reading: Morning Song

Primarily, I viewed this piece as a heartwarming piece without any particular theme about it. However, the second and third times reading, I was slightly annoyed at the repetitiveness of the task, but I was catching on to subtle imagery of gentle caresses of maternal love. Over the next few reads I tried connecting the syntax to the concept of maternal instinct and devotion. And somewhere around the pointless addition of making the robe Victorian, I figured all the little attentions to detail are homage to the selfless devotion of parental care for a child. The fear associated with the abrupt awakening of the narrator attests to the care that this poem wishes to idealize.