Contrasting the 'Pied beauty' and the 'Hunting Snake'

Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote this poem ‘Pied Beauty’, which used the tone of contradiction to convince readers to praise and be thankful to God, as He had given us whatever we have. On the other hand, ‘Hunting Snake’ written by Judith Wright created the tone of tense by illustrating the reactions of the poet and her companion when they met a hunting snake on their walk. Great senses of imagery were created in both the poems ‘Pied Beauty’ and ‘Hunting Snake’.

First difference between two poems is shown in the structure and rhyme of both poems. Pied beauty is a sonnet poem with rhyme (ABCABCDABDB). This highlights the melodic line of this pome, enhancing the sense of awe. On the other hand, Hunting has 4 stanzas consist of 4 lines each with rhyme (ABAB) until the third stanza. Sudden removal of rhyme contrasts the situation before and after the snake has gone underscoring the contrasting emotion of Wright.

‘Pied Beauty’ portrayed the beauty of God’s creation. Simile was used in ‘for skies of couple-color as a brinded cow’ to describe the double-colored blue sky with white clouds. Some cows have black spots on their white bodies. Hopkins compared the two-toned color to the brindled cows. Author used this simile to convince the reader that simple and common things can be beautiful. ‘Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls’ metaphorically represented the period when the fallen chestnuts crack opens their hard shell to let their seeds blow into the air; it looks like white fire flame. This creates a sense of awe because it clearly shows the nature’s beauty. The line ‘landscape plotted and pieced’ is used to portray farmers dividing and separating the lands to plant their crops. The following line ‘fold, fallow and plough’ represented the labors that must be done by the farmers to farm. This particular imagery was used by Hopkins to show us that beauty of nature can’t be changed but always beautiful like it said in ‘beauty is past change’.

‘Hunting Snake’ exhibited the