View Friday's Child Poem Background. Auden was admired for his unsurpassed technical virtuosity and ability to write poems in nearly every imaginable verse form; Love is something if you give it away… 'over the river':
It is supposed to tell a child's character or future from his or her day of birth and to help young children.
Thus, the line wednesday's child is full of woe was once friday's child is full of woe. Friday's child is loving and giving (hazel). It simply varies according to traditions. Friday's child poem by frank bana.