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Analysis and comments on The Child Is Father To The Man by Gerard Manley Hopkins

Comment 3 of 3, added on July 29th, 2007 at 9:44 PM.

Given Hopkins personal history and reason for resuming the writing of poetry, it would seem plausible that the meaning beneath the script is that Christ is the father of all men (people). Christ came as a child/baby and gave life to us all through his ultimate personal sacrifice.

Nancy Hamlin from United States
Comment 2 of 3, added on March 14th, 2005 at 2:38 PM.

Remembering this one from school, I don't recall our analysis of it, but to me now, it has come to represent the role exchanges that are slowly taking place as my own Father ages. At 93, he does rather well, but I truly have become "father to the man".It is a wild transition! Strike a cord with anyone?

Jane Parr-Whitehead from United States
Comment 1 of 3, added on February 11th, 2005 at 8:34 AM.

this paradox similar to "which came earlier an egg or a cock" seems very confusing.but to be noted that child are the base for the huge builadings named man


bikash from Nepal



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Poet: Gerard Manley Hopkins
Poem: The Child Is Father To The Man
Volume: Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins
Added: Feb 21 2003
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