Im looking for a poem that deals with a child crying over the change of season but really it deals with death

Answer 1

This is one of Gerard Manley Hopkins' most beatiful and most often quoted poems. [My computer won't let me put in some accent marks that indicate Hopkins' delicate "sprung" rhythm.]

It may be a bit simplistic to say that it really deals with death. The poem is a bit more subtle than that. ". . . the blight man was born for," of course, includes the inevitability of death, but it also includes the loss of innocence in the child who now can weep at the beauty of the seasons and at the loss of that beauty, the loss of childhood itself, and the continual loss of self as we grow older and change from day to day. "Ah! as the heart grows older / It will come to such sights colder / By and by . . . ."

So, of course, spring and fall are the seasons (and the periods of life they represent), but they are also the "springing" into maturity, maybe wisdom, and the "fall" from childhood innocence, and the they are the source, or spring, of our grief ("Sorrows' springs are the same") and the fall into wordlessness, the inability to communicate what we are feeling ("Nor mouth had, no, nor mind expressed").

I first read this poem many years ago when it appeared on my M.A. comprehensive examination for analysis. I have never forgotten it, and if anything I appreciate it more now than I ever could have then. The heart may grow older, but it does not have to come to such poems colder.

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Spring and Fall

To a young child

Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Leaves, like the things of man, you
With your fresh thoughts care for, can you?
Ah! as 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 will weep know why.
Now no matter, child, the name:
Sorrow's springs are the same.
Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed
What heart heard of, ghost guessed:
It is the blight man was born for,
It is Margaret you mourn for.

Answer 2

Oh, I love that poem (or the poem it reminded me of), but I'd forgotten about it! It's called "Spring and Fall":

MÁRGARÉT, áre you gríeving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Leáves, líke the things of man, you
With your fresh thoughts care for, can you?
Áh! ás the heart grows older 5
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: 10
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.
-- Gerard Manley Hopkins.

Answer 3

I remembered the poem but not the title or author, but was able to Google for it with the first line. It's called "Spring or Fall" and is by Gerard Manley Hopkins.

"Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Trees, like the things of man, you
With your fresh thoughts care for, can you?
As the heart grows older
It will come to such sights colder
By and by, nor heave a sigh
though worlds of wanwood liefmeal lie.
Yet you will weep, and know why.
When golden lads and lasses must,
Like chimney sweepers come to dust.

"This is the fate man was born for.
It is Margaret you mourn for."

(and I've forgotten the rest).

Answer 4

does it deal from the bottom?Sounds like one of those Bill and Ted things,trying to beat death at parcheesy

Answer 5

are you refering to the song 'seasons in the sun' ?