A simile is an expression in which we make a comparison between two things to present an effective word picture, and use such words as ‘like’ and ‘as’ A Baby Running Barefoot is a poem written by D. H. Lawrence. In the poem he uses several similes throughout the poem, Now lust us list out them.
i) ‘The little white feet nod like white flowers in a wind.’
ii) ‘They poise and run like puffs of wind that pass over water where the weeds are thinned.’
iii) ‘The sight of their white playing in the grass is winsome as a robin’s song, so fluttering.’
iv) ‘…. like two butterflies that settle on a glass cup for a moment, soft little wing-beats uttering.’
v) ‘1 wish that the baby would tack across here to me like a wind-shadow running on a pond.’
These are some similes used in the poem, A Baby Running Barefoot, written by DH Lawrence.