Hopkins: Spring and Fall – Illustrated Reading

"Spring & Fall" by Gerard Manley Hopkins. Ano sensei's illustrated reading

An illustrated reading of one of Hopkins's most perfectly-constructed poems. Hopkins gently looks beyond the child's tears at the falling of leaves into the source of all human grief - ...the knowledge of our own inevitable and impending death. The way in which the poet switches tone from sentimentality to bleakness is masterly.

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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.Show More