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Spring And Fall To A Young Child - A poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Leaves like the things of man, you
With your fresh thoughts care for, can you?
Ah! as the heart grows older
It will come to such sights colder
By and by, nor spare a sigh
Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie;
And yet you will weep and know why.
Now no matter, child, the name:
Sorrow's springs are the same.
Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed
What heart heard of, ghost guessed:
It is the blight man was born for,
It is Margaret you mourn for.
About the poem -- The poem addressed to a young girl Margaret who like all children is sad about the end of spring and the falling of leaves. But, the poet believes that as time and age passes she will get used to much colder and heart breaking sights and occurrences. The poet reflects that as a child she is unable to articulate her own feelings about this event but that as she grows up she will realize that in truth she was afflicted at the consciousness of her own mortality.
About the poet - Gerard Manley Hopkins (28 July 1844 -- 8 June 1889) was an English poet, Roman Catholic convert, and Jesuit priest. He was born in Stratford, Essex near London. His work became famous posthumously placing him among the leading Victorian poets. His experimental explorations in prosody (especially sprung rhythm) and his use of imagery was the unique feature of his poetic works which enabled him outperform his contemporaries.
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Spring And Fall To A Young Child - A poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Leaves like the things of man, you
With your fresh thoughts care for, can you?
Ah! as the heart grows older
It will come to such sights colder
By and by, nor spare a sigh
Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie;
And yet you will weep and know why.
Now no matter, child, the name:
Sorrow's springs are the same.
Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed
What heart heard of, ghost guessed:
It is the blight man was born for,
It is Margaret you mourn for.
About the poem -- The poem addressed to a young girl Margaret who like all children is sad about the end of spring and the falling of leaves. But, the poet believes that as time and age passes she will get used to much colder and heart breaking sights and occurrences. The poet reflects that as a child she is unable to articulate her own feelings about this event but that as she grows up she will realize that in truth she was afflicted at the consciousness of her own mortality.
About the poet - Gerard Manley Hopkins (28 July 1844 -- 8 June 1889) was an English poet, Roman Catholic convert, and Jesuit priest. He was born in Stratford, Essex near London. His work became famous posthumously placing him among the leading Victorian poets. His experimental explorations in prosody (especially sprung rhythm) and his use of imagery was the unique feature of his poetic works which enabled him outperform his contemporaries.
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