The Child is Father to the Man
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The Child is Father to the Man by Gerard Manley Hopkins
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With this poem, Hopkins is disagreeing with Wordsworth’s declaration in “My Heart Leaps Up” that the child is the father to the man.
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'The child is father to the man.'
How can he be? The words are wild.
Suck any sense from that who can:
'The child is father to the man.'
No; what the poet did write ran,
'The man is father to the child.'
'The child is father to the man!'
How can he be? The words are wild.