Today marks the first day of Fall and the autumn equinox, when day - TopicsExpress



          

Today marks the first day of Fall and the autumn equinox, when day and night are about equal in length. Heres a poem that helps to explain the wistfulness that can accompany this season. Spring and Fall By Gerard Manley Hopkins to a young child Márgarét, áre you gríeving Over Goldengrove unleaving? Leáves like the things of man, you With your fresh thoughts care for, can you? Ah! ás 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 wíll weep and know why. Now no matter, child, the name: 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. Source: Gerard Manley Hopkins: Poems and Prose (Penguin Classics, 1985) Painting by Sir John Everett Millais, Autumn Leaves (1856), in the Manchester City Art Gallery
Posted on: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 11:50:34 +0000

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