Lullaby Themes

At its most basic level, "Lullaby" is a love poem. The speaker begins by addressing his sleeping loved one, and goes on to ponder how love works in a world where everything eventually ends and wher...

The speaker of "Lullaby" spends a whole lot of time thinking about death. In the same sentence, he calls his beloved both "living" and "mortal." While he's alive now, he won't be alive forever. The...

The speaker of "Lullaby" isn't a religious man. We might even say he's anti-religious. He describes himself as "faithless" and asks us to "find the mortal world enough" – to not look to God to an...

The speaker of "Lullaby" knows that nothing lasts forever and that time passes. He includes several obvious symbols of time in his poem, and talks a whole lot about the fleetingness of life. But yo...