A Study Guide for Gerard Manley Hopkins's "Spring and Fall: To a Young Child"
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Spring and Fall: To a Young Girl
Gerard Manley Hopkins
1880
Introduction
Spring and Fall: To a Young Girl
was written in 1880 by British poet Gerard Manley Hopkins, according to him, as he was walking to a train station. The poem, like many of Hopkins's poems, is a reflection on death and the biblical fall of humankind, addressed to a girl he has named Margaret. That Hopkins would choose such a theme for his poem is not surprising: Hopkins was a Jesuit priest in the Catholic Church, and many of the poems written during the final years of his life reflect his agonizing inner struggles with religious conflict and human suffering.
Hopkins, a nineteenth-century British poet, is in many respects outside the mainstream of Victorian poetry—the great age of such poets as Robert Browning and Alfred Lord Tennyson, who dominated English poetry during the long reign of Queen Victoria. He was a Catholic in largely Protestant England. His poetry is deeply religious, and he did not deal with major social issues or the concerns of the larger community in his poems. His poems were not even published until 1918, long after his death, so he was virtually unknown as a poet during his lifetime. In the eyes of many poets and critics in the period between the two world wars of the twentieth century, he was more of a modern
poet than a Victorian. Further, his poetic style is highly unusual. He made use of a unique metrical scheme, and the language of his poems could be described as quirky, with unusual word forms and lines that rely on multiple meanings of words. His poetic output was slender in comparison with the volumes of verse the major poets produced, so he is