Margaret (title refers to poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins)

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"Margaret" is the young girl addressed in Gerard Manley Hopkins's poem "Spring and Fall," who serves as a figure for innocent sorrow and the dawning awareness of human mortality.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional character
poetic character
addressedAs "Margaret, are you grieving"
addressedBy speaker of "Spring and Fall"
appearsIn "Spring and Fall" NERFINISHED
associatedWithTheme childhood
emotional awakening
fall of man
grief
human mortality
innocence
loss
sorrow
transience of life
createdBy Gerard Manley Hopkins NERFINISHED
describedAs young child
young girl
emotion grief over falling leaves
hasRole addressee of the poem
figure of innocent sorrow
representative child figure
symbol of dawning awareness of mortality
languageOfWork English
nameIn "Spring and Fall" NERFINISHED
symbolizes human response to mortality
individual confrontation with death
loss of innocence
timeOfCreationContext 19th century
workFormContext lyric poem
workGenreContext Victorian poetry

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Margaret hasTitleCharacter Margaret (title refers to poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins)