Spring and Fall and Janet Waking Comparision
... A child’s viewpoint is expressed in the two poems, Spring and Fall and Janet Waking. ... Spring and Fall, by Gerald Manly Hopkins is a poem about a young girl, Margaret realizing for the first time that all things in life change and eventually die. ... The poem, Janet Waking, by John Crowe Ransom is similar to the poem Spring and Fall by its own examination of death through the eyes of a child. ... Simplistically, it was just a part of nature that a bee stings a creature and it may die from it; but to Janet the bee changed her best friend into something completely different. ... In Spring and Fall, the speaker is helping the child interpret her own thoughts, and what they will come to be. In Janet Waking, the speaker is the father explaining the anguish he sees his daughter going through upon her first experience with death. At the end of the poem, the speaker reveals to the audience not only Janet’s shock of the death, but her innocence in not being able to comprehend the concept.