spring and fall to a young child insight
... So, seriously, it is about the persona talking to a child named Margaret, who was crying over the falling leaves from the trees in Goldengrove. ... Leafmeal, then, pertains to the leaves that fall on the ground little by little during autumn, which by the way is the season described in the poem. ... Well, if we jumble the words and say it in "English", it simply says: Can you, with your fresh thoughts (or young mind --youth), care for leaves like the things of man (or the possessions of man)?