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@@MrBenAckland In september

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I think the extravagant imagery and rapt tone suggest that this the "birthday" refers to Rossetti's belief in, and longing for the second coming of Christ. The tone also lends itself to secular celebration, hence the poem's popularity as a celebration of more earthly birthdays.

I think it is to the extent that, like many of CR's poems, there is a narrative viewpoint expressed in the first person. It's tempting to take that subjective viewpoint to be Rossetti herself, but she manages to make the ideas in this poem (and others) more universal than simply self-reflective accounts of her own experience - thereby allowing readers to make their own subjective connections to the work, even now for you and I, 160 years after she wrote it 😊

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