poem "Spring and Fall" by Gerard Manley Hopkins
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"Spring and Fall" is a lyric poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins that meditates on innocence, mortality, and the dawning awareness of human sorrow through a speaker’s address to a child named Margaret.
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| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| poem "Spring and Fall" by Gerard Manley Hopkins canonical | 1 |
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
lyric poem
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poem ⓘ |
| addressedTo | a young girl ⓘ |
| addressee | Margaret NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| author | Gerard Manley Hopkins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralQuestion | why humans grieve ⓘ |
| character | Margaret NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| compositionPeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| concerns |
dawning awareness of mortality
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inner source of sorrow ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| firstLine | Margaret, are you grieving ⓘ |
| focusesOn | a child’s grief over falling leaves ⓘ |
| form | short lyric ⓘ |
| genre | lyric poetry ⓘ |
| imagery |
autumn leaves
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seasonal change ⓘ |
| includedIn | collections of Gerard Manley Hopkins’s poems ⓘ |
| interpretedAs |
meditation on universal human sorrow
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reflection on the inevitability of death ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement |
Jesuit poetry
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Victorian poetry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| meter | sprung rhythm ⓘ |
| nationalLiterature | English literature ⓘ |
| religiousContext |
Catholicism
NERFINISHED
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Christian theology ⓘ |
| rhymeScheme | variable ⓘ |
| setting |
autumn
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woodland ⓘ |
| speaker |
adult observer
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philosophical narrator ⓘ |
| studiedIn |
courses on Victorian poetry
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courses on religious poetry ⓘ |
| theme |
awareness of death
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emotional maturation ⓘ fall of man ⓘ grief ⓘ human sorrow ⓘ innocence ⓘ loss ⓘ mortality ⓘ original sin ⓘ transience of life ⓘ |
| tone |
meditative
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melancholic ⓘ tender ⓘ |
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