Spring and Fall: To A Young Child By: Gerard Manley Hopkins By: Allie, Chloe, Julianna, and Travis

Gerard Manley Hopkins Biography Died june 8th 1889 in dublin ireland education- highgate school, Balliol college and the university of oxford He is the first of nine children He was an english poet, roman catholic convert and a jesuit priest

Spring and Fall: To a Young Child By: Gerard Manley Hopkins Poem Analysis: ●Gerard is writing to a friend or family member named Márgarét for the purpose of wondering why she is grieving ●He relates life to the cycle of the seasons; Spring brings vibrancy and life while fall is the coming of death. ●Gerard explains life and death in a child friendly way to this character Márgarét Márgarét, áre you gríeving Over Goldengrove unleaving? Leáves like the things of man, you With your fresh thoughts care for, can you? Ah! ás 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 wíll weep and know why. Now no matter, child, the name: Sórrow’s spríngs áre the same. Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed What heart heard of, ghost guessed: It ís the blight man was born for, It is Margaret you mourn for.

Literary Devices in Spring and Fall: To a Young Child From reading this text, it is assumed that Hopkins is referring to spring and fall as death. At one point he says, “ sorrows springs are the same” Which could refer to the loss of somebody being very sad, almost like a rainy day during the spring. Hopkins also uses the line “ Ah, as the heart grows older, it will come to such sights colder.” This could be a resemblance of growing old. Through the many springs and falls that pass, you grow older and lose more people. Subjects of poem: grieving, death, growing old, etc.

Theme of Spring and Fall: To a Young Child Death: It tells how the child realizes that he or she realizes is not permanent and that we will all die one day. Sadness: It tells how in the beginning that Margaret is grieving. She is sad because the leaves are falling off the trees but really it is something different like the specter of death.

Gerard Manley Hopkins Attitude in Spring and Fall: To a Young Child The overall tone of this poem is dark because it is about explaining death to a young child who for the first time in her life is faced with it when she sees the leafs falling off the trees and dying. The poem is talking about a very natural thing that happens to everyone but it is a gloomy mood because it involves a child and the child beginning to consider her own death.