Question

Which excerpt from gerard manley hopkins "spring and fall" describes grief as a self-centered act?

A. "It is the blight man was born for,/It is Margaret you mourn for."
B."Now no matter, child, the name:/Sorrow's springs are the same."
C. "Ah! as the heart grows older/It will come to such sights colder..."
D. Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed/What heart heard of, ghost guessed..."

Answer 1

The excerpt from Gerard Manley Hopkins "Spring and Fall" describes grief as a self centered act is "Ah! as the heart grows older/It will come to such sights colder." Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote this poem in 1880. It is about a little girl who must come to terms with her own mortality.