'An Explanation of Spring and Fall\r'

'An Explication of Spring and Fall: To a Young Child Hopkins starts his poem, Spring and Fall: To a Young Child, with a question to a juvenility little girl, perhaps his granddaughter: â€Å"Margaret, are you grieving[? ]” ( take out 1). This quotation suggests that Margaret is watching the leaves sink from the trees in the fall and is sad to see the leaves go. Margaret is a young child, and in being young, she would have no companionship of the seasons and why the leaves are falling. â€Å"Over Goldengrove unleaving? (line 2), Goldengrove may be metaphorical for her childhood and her lack of knowledge in life and death, because Goldengrove sounds very playful and graceful like a garden or playground. ”Leaves, [like the things of humans]/ With [her] new-made thoughts care for, can you? ” (line 3 and line 4), erst again Hopkins uses questioning his poem, asking the young girl how she could care astir(predicate) such unimportant things as leaves. With line three of his poem, Hopkins also implies that Margaret is showing characteristics of man by caring about the leaves. He continues that fancy in: â€Å"Ah! s the heart grows sometime(a)/”(line 5). Hopkins is laborious to tell Margaret that as she grows older into womanhood, her heart pull up stakes as well. â€Å"It provide come to such sights colder. ” (line 6), this mind is all the same further continued in line six, where Hopkins tells Margaret that leaves falling from a tree is only the rootage of her sadness, because as she gets older, she will see worse things than that. â€Å"Nor bare(a) a sigh/[Though worlds of] wanwood leafmeal lie”(line 8) Hopkins tells Margaret that as she grows older and sees how bad things are she will not hardiness to cry at the sight of fallen leaves always again.But, Hopkins assures her that she will indeed still cry, â€Å"Now no matter, child, the name” (line 10). Hopkins then tells the child that she wonâ€℠¢t know or be able to sing why she feels so sad: â€Å"Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed” (line 11). Hopkins continues with â€Å"It is the blight man was born for,” (line 13) content that everyone is born to do one thing, and that is die. As Hopkins’s poem comes to an end, the last line reads, â€Å"It is Margaret you mourn for. ” (line 14). This says that Margaret will mourn her whole life away, grieving about her own unavoidable demise, and that she will never even realize that is why she is sad.\r\n'