The poem opens with the question to a young child, Margaret. The poet ask why she was sorry. At the lass of leaves of the Goldengrove trees as winter comes. The speaker says that the age will change these innocent thoughts. And the whole world of forest will be leafless and broken. The child will weep then, too. The poet fells that Margaret is expressing her sorrow over her own mortality at the sight of leaves falling off from the trees.
But Hopkins deliberately put accents on the syllables he wanted stressed, which unbalances the reading. This was read just like an ordinary poem. Please find it written with the original stresses.
Very well read, got that syntax down and that's amazing. GMH was way out there, and you captured it so well with intelligence and compassion. More! more!
The poem opens with the question to a young child, Margaret. The poet ask why she was sorry. At the lass of leaves of the Goldengrove trees as winter comes. The speaker says that the age will change these innocent thoughts. And the whole world of forest will be leafless and broken. The child will weep then, too. The poet fells that Margaret is expressing her sorrow over her own mortality at the sight of leaves falling off from the trees.
MrSalman09 1 year ago
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abearson 1 year ago
But Hopkins deliberately put accents on the syllables he wanted stressed, which unbalances the reading. This was read just like an ordinary poem. Please find it written with the original stresses.
montims 3 years ago
Yeah, Hopkins used sprung rhythm a meter which he created.
kazalack 2 years ago
Go to the movie "Vision Quest" and in it the teacher reads it the way it should be. It's on here somewhere.
15scottie 2 years ago
well done! hopkins is REALLY hard to read :)
charlottepoet 3 years ago
I want to recite this poem at a contest next week, even thought its too hard for me. Any tips? =)
mochila22 4 years ago
Read the interpretations of the poem and make it sound conversational. and don't mess up like I did. Older/Colder.
Poetivity 4 years ago
Very well read, got that syntax down and that's amazing. GMH was way out there, and you captured it so well with intelligence and compassion. More! more!
JeanEntwisle 4 years ago
I never liked Hopkins. I think it was my professor. I can't get him out of my mind!
I think he was as tormented as Hopkins.
There is nothing more destructive than homophobia. At least it seems that way.
It seems pervasive, even today!
ReliableInsider 4 years ago
Where'd you go?
Poetivity 4 years ago
I trid reading it to myself as you were introducing the video and my brain loked up. Well done.
NaturalTwentyFilms 4 years ago
Um... locked up. :)
NaturalTwentyFilms 4 years ago
you've mastered it...great posting!
windcu 4 years ago
ahyup
marquisdejolie 4 years ago
Could you post the text in the description box? I like your reading, but now want to read along. Thanks!
Largo64 4 years ago
Text is now posted...thanks for watching!
Poetivity 4 years ago
Hey, thanks! I know that poem so well that various lines flash through my mind all the time. (And yet, though it's short, I don't have it memorized.)
DahliaK 4 years ago