Morning

The sun rising in the east,
The morning sky does shine;
The birds who’re chirping has increased,
And those who wake do mind.
 The trees, like high walls
Sway as the wind falls,
And with this warning
Does come the morning.

Goodbye, bright moon and shining star,
Who had watched over the night:
Where people are found afar,
Their sleepy eyes closed quite tight;
As the people awaken
From the dreams they’d taken
The day dawns,
The shadows are drawn.

Imagination comes alive
Where children think of the unknown;
Their minds begin to strive
To keep from what’s not their own.
The heavens keep watch below,
There the sun gives a glow,
And light pours
Through the outdoors.

When trees and flowers bloom,
With colorful leaves and petals,
Growing like babies in the womb,
Until they decide to settle.
But, as the sun descends
The shining ends,
The chirping birds cease
And everything sleeps.

This poem is a response to William Blake's poem, "Night". William Blake was a very religious man, who often mentioned God in his poems, and "Night" is not an exception. Nearly all of his poems have some kind of reference to God or to the bible, which is why the heavens are mentioned in my poem "Morning". Blake was also quite fond of using a lot of descriptive language. His poem "Night" has a rhyme scheme of ABABCCDD that is effectively used throughout the entire poem. My poem "Morning" imitates this in every stanza as well. In the first stanza of "Night," the fact that the day was coming to an end is described, and the opposite is described in "Morning". The presence of nature is a popular theme for romantic literature, which is what this poem is all about. Nature, during the Romantic Era, was a means of divine revelation.Imagination also prevailed at the time.