Pied Beauty
How Gerard Manley Hopkins vividly portrays the beauty of pied things?
The poem ‘Pied Beauty’ by Gerard Manley Hopkins uses an array of ways to show vivid beauty in this small text. He uses ways such as intense imagery, sound effects such as the rhythm and alliteration. The word pied just means 2 different shades of colours, meaning that the title just means the 2 different shades of beauty. Beauty can be both seen as internal and external. This poem shows that everything is made by god so praise him. Also in this poem the first line has a word which says “things”, when we humans say things we are including everything excluding us. He believed that everything created by nature and nature itself is the most beautiful thing, because God created it, and therefore he calls everything, even something we would consider as odd or ugly, beautiful. What is interesting, that Gerard Manley Hopkins was religious; he was a Roman Catholic priest. Maybe it was his experience that brought him to the idea of beautiful pied things created by God.
One of the ways the author shows the beauty of pied things is by using intense amounts of imagery. This is evident in lines “For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow”, “For rose-moles all in stipple upon the trot that swim” and “Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls”. The first quote, “For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow” shows that how the sky with its imperfect, odd patterns is beautiful. How brinded cows have different coloration pattern which is imperfect, they might look ugly but they are beautiful. These things might not actually look beautiful to us but according to Hopkins he believes that whatever is a creation of god must be beautiful. Things might look ugly on the exterior but their soul is pure this is why the poem’s name is “Pied Beauty” as it is unclear. The author also finds beauty in things such as “Fresh-Firecoal chestnuts-falls”. If we are to look at glowing firecoal we see very bright yellow centre which resembles the
The poem ‘Pied Beauty’ by Gerard Manley Hopkins uses an array of ways to show vivid beauty in this small text. He uses ways such as intense imagery, sound effects such as the rhythm and alliteration. The word pied just means 2 different shades of colours, meaning that the title just means the 2 different shades of beauty. Beauty can be both seen as internal and external. This poem shows that everything is made by god so praise him. Also in this poem the first line has a word which says “things”, when we humans say things we are including everything excluding us. He believed that everything created by nature and nature itself is the most beautiful thing, because God created it, and therefore he calls everything, even something we would consider as odd or ugly, beautiful. What is interesting, that Gerard Manley Hopkins was religious; he was a Roman Catholic priest. Maybe it was his experience that brought him to the idea of beautiful pied things created by God.
One of the ways the author shows the beauty of pied things is by using intense amounts of imagery. This is evident in lines “For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow”, “For rose-moles all in stipple upon the trot that swim” and “Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls”. The first quote, “For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow” shows that how the sky with its imperfect, odd patterns is beautiful. How brinded cows have different coloration pattern which is imperfect, they might look ugly but they are beautiful. These things might not actually look beautiful to us but according to Hopkins he believes that whatever is a creation of god must be beautiful. Things might look ugly on the exterior but their soul is pure this is why the poem’s name is “Pied Beauty” as it is unclear. The author also finds beauty in things such as “Fresh-Firecoal chestnuts-falls”. If we are to look at glowing firecoal we see very bright yellow centre which resembles the