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Comment 5 of 5, added on May 15th, 2006 at 10:43 PM.
I think that this poem is very deep. i think that it is sad in a way. i love this poem cause it makes me think of a death of a loved one and gets me thinking that life is short and you have to live it up and what more to live it up to than to Jesus Christ. he is my Lord and savior. i love God and want to serve him and this poem just gets me thinking of the life he gave us to serve him.
Austin from United States
Comment 4 of 5, added on November 17th, 2005 at 6:57 PM.
Isn't this by Wordsworth?
Jule from Argentina
Comment 3 of 5, added on November 10th, 2005 at 1:36 PM.
This is one of Hopkin's most obvious use of sprung rhthym...good stuff!
Alexander Oldroyd from United Kingdom
Comment 2 of 5, added on June 1st, 2005 at 10:47 AM.
I have always loved this poem. We had a wonderful English teacher at my convent school in Devon in the late 1950s and she encouraged us to learn poems by heart including a large number of Hopkins' poems. Perhaps it spoke to me because the child has the same name as me, but I think I liked its autumnal quality ' though worlds of wanwood leaf meal lie ...' I often quote it to myself when looking at the fallen leaves in autumn and somehow I find it very consoling at difficult points in my life .
margaret cudlip from United Kingdom
Comment 1 of 5, added on April 18th, 2005 at 11:43 AM.
"To a Young Child" by Gerard Manley Hopkins is one of those poems in between language and music which lends itself to memorization. Unwittingly, I can repeat this poem as I can Yeats' "Turning and turning in the widening gyre, the falcon cannot hear the falconer..."
Hopkins' poem, packed with consonance and assonance, is close to language as music or as food. It pours out like a river as it is spoken with its sad message about the mortality at autumn of a grove of trees which the young may dwell on and the older tune out.
Christopher Schmitz from United States
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I think that this poem is very deep. i think that it is sad in a way. i love this poem cause it makes me think of a death of a loved one and gets me thinking that life is short and you have to live it up and what more to live it up to than to Jesus Christ. he is my Lord and savior. i love God and want to serve him and this poem just gets me thinking of the life he gave us to serve him.
Austin from United States