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The mind of a child is both profound and simple at the same time. A young child’s mind is profound by the way it can grasp concepts at levels they are not aware of and sub-consciously understand something without ever having it explained. It is simple because of the innocent and unprejudiced way it absorbs the concepts of life. As an adult, one can see a subject or idea in a completely different way by viewing it through the eyes of a child. A child’s viewpoint is expressed in the two poems, Spring and Fall and Janet Waking. These poems discuss the way a child looks at death symbolically and the way a child interprets death. 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. She is learning that life is not permanent. The poem’s speaker seems to be a knowledgeable elder that throughout the poem is explaining life to Margaret and helping her interpret her own thoughts. Margaret is upset when she sees the trees losing their leaves and the elder asks her if she is grieving. The elder then tells her that this is something that happens, and as she grows older she will no longer get upset over this occurrence, b