Spring and Fall
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"Spring and Fall" is a lyric poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins that meditates on innocence, mortality, and the inevitable sorrow that comes with human awareness of death.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Spring and Fall canonical | 1 |
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
lyric poem
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poem ⓘ |
| addressee | a young child ⓘ |
| addressesThemeOf |
adult understanding of death
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childhood innocence ⓘ inevitability of sorrow ⓘ |
| alternateTitle | Spring and Fall: to a young child NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| author | Gerard Manley Hopkins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
awareness of death
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grief ⓘ human sorrow ⓘ innocence ⓘ loss of innocence ⓘ mortality ⓘ nature and human emotion ⓘ transience of life ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| form | lyric ⓘ |
| genre | lyric poetry ⓘ |
| hasCharacter | Margaret NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryDevice |
apostrophe
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direct address ⓘ metaphor ⓘ symbolism ⓘ |
| literaryMovement |
Jesuit poetry
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late Victorian poetry ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Victorian poetry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| metricalFeatures | sprung rhythm ⓘ |
| narrativeVoice | adult speaker addressing a child ⓘ |
| openingLine | Margaret, are you grieving ⓘ |
| originalTitle | Spring and Fall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| philosophicalConcern |
human condition
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relationship between nature and mortality ⓘ |
| poet | Gerard Manley Hopkins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religiousContext |
Catholicism
NERFINISHED
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Jesuit spirituality ⓘ |
| stylisticFeature |
alliteration
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dense sound patterning ⓘ internal rhyme ⓘ religious undertones ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
a child’s response to falling leaves
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meditation on human mortality ⓘ |
| symbol |
falling leaves as symbol of mortality
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seasonal change as symbol of human aging ⓘ |
| tone |
meditative
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melancholic ⓘ tender ⓘ |
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