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And here's the Hopkins one:
‘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.
Presumably he was joking back at Wordsworth.
posted by
_dave_says_ack_
on April 24, 2006 at 5:35 AM
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Here it is in full:
My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began,
So is it now I am a man,
So be it when I shall grow old
Or let me die!
The Child is father of the Man:
And I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety.
posted by
_dave_says_ack_
on April 24, 2006 at 5:30 AM
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El Tel, I decided to look into it.
It was Wordsworth in a poem beginning 'My heart leaps up...'
Then Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote a poem with the quotation as his title.
Then Blood, Sweat and Tears released an album with the title.
Interesting stuff. You live and learn. I remember examining the quotation in an English class once, but I didn't remember it being WW.
posted by
_dave_says_ack_
on April 24, 2006 at 5:28 AM
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Tio David
Just cruisin' thro for a while. I think the saying about the child being father to the man is in the Bible, but I'm not sure. Maybe someone will put us right. This pieces is derived from one of my poems.
La Fiesta gave me lots of problems last night. I wound up posting it and deleting it several times ; and then it didn't show up on my screen. Oh, and ha ha ha, very funny!
posted by
ariel70
on April 24, 2006 at 5:15 AM
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Very good Terry. I have a poem on the same subject somewhere.
I'll dig it out for you at some point. Can't remember whether I've posted it here or not.
But it explores the exact same train of thought. Great minds, eh.
And who was the original 'Child is father to the man' quotation? Was it Shakey? (No, not Stevens).
posted by
_dave_says_ack_
on April 23, 2006 at 4:55 PM
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There was a guy on public TV - Maybe his name was John Gray
who used to do "heal yourself" programs. He used to say there are three of us living inside each physical person: the child, the adult, and the parent. He said we all have a wounded inner child. Things the child never got over (such as not feeling loved or cherished) make it impossible for the adult to function well. So he suggests we visualize our parental self holding our child self on our lap, hug it tenderly and promise to always take care of it. Which sounds a bit silly here, but when I catch myself pouting about some imagined slight, I tell myself, "there, there, it will be all right," and this little motherly TLC makes things settle back into place. I think this is the author of "Men are From Mars, Women are From Venus," another premise that struck me as weird, but some people find it useful.
posted by
Pat_B
on April 23, 2006 at 7:30 AM
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hi again ariel,
thanks for refreshing me on that comment.... well, yes, you responded to a spirituality blog of mine and here is your comment:
Joleen
Er ... I've just done that ; what shall I do now? In the few minutes before midnite Spanish time that is.
Posted by on April 18, 2006 at 3:05 PM (permalink)
So, suffice it to say, now i'm confused... was just answering my comments like a good little blogger, nothing seriously meant. However, you, it seems were saying that you had visualized what i was getting at and didn't see the point, right? So, to me you missed the point. So, my comment was simply stating that simple love does wonders for us all, or some other such sentiment. At that point, i'm not sure what you remembered... lol. peace brother, that was my intent, just peace with my fellow bloggers. namaste.
posted by
joleen
on April 22, 2006 at 8:42 PM
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That was extremely powerful, Ariel. Thank you for sharing this with the rest of us. It's good to read you again, my friend!! God bless...
posted by
lovelyladymonk
on April 22, 2006 at 6:26 PM
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Whacky
Thank you. Glad you liked it!
posted by
ariel70
on April 22, 2006 at 3:12 PM
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Nice!
posted by
Whacky
on April 22, 2006 at 3:08 PM
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