Spring Gerard Manley Hopkins [1844-1899] Relevant Background • Hopkins was a priest who wrote Nature Poetry. • He celebrated beauty in the natural world. He loved the freshness of spring. • In many of his poems‚ like ‘Spring’‚ he linked beauty in nature to prayer. • He thought that beauty in nature was a reminder of God’s love and greatness. • He thought that beauty in nature was a reminder of the innocence and purity of childhood. • He wrote this poem more than a hundred years ago. • Hopkins
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The poem "Spring and Fall" by Gerard Manley Hopkins is a poem focusing on the brevity of life‚ and the grief that is felt in the hearts of all mankind throughout our lives. It is also about the sadness felt by humans as we see ourselves aging‚ and ultimately about the fact that sin and separation from God bring sorrow and sadness that can never be fully explained by man. The poet is seemingly speaking to a young child‚ Margaret‚ who in her naivety and youth is only beginning to learn about aging
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In Gerard Manley Hopkins ’ "Spring and Fall‚" the speaker of the poem describes the changing phases of an individual ’s understanding about loss and death from a childhood to maturity. Throughout the poem‚ the child ’s innocence is gradually lost over time as her weeping for the dying leaves turns into weeping for her own mortality. As if putting on a play for his readers‚ the poet incorporates visual images as well as aural effects into his poem. In "Spring and Fall"‚ Hopkins uses rhythm‚ word choice
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nineteenth and twentieth centuries‚ Gerard Manley Hopkins’ poetry is of great significance. As often the case with innovators and artists who are ahead of their times‚ Gerard Manley Hopkins was torn by contradictions and his poems regarded as unconventional for the historical period. His works are specifically marked by the varied use of linguistic features and rhythmic patterns which did not match the traditional writing styles of the nineteenth century. Hopkins uses what he terms ‘sprung rhythm‚’
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as in rolling level underneath him steady air. This concentrates his images‚ communicating the instress of the poet’s perceptions of an inscape to his reader. Hopkins took time to learn Old English‚ which became a major influence on his writing. Hopkins held the language in such high regard that in an 1882 letter to Robert Bridges‚ Hopkins opines that Old English is "a vastly superior thing to what we have now". Added richness comes from Hopkins’s extensive use of alliteration‚ assonance‚ onomatopoeia
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Pied Beauty‚ Gerard Hopkins vividly portrays his love of things that are not perfect by his choice of words‚ his use or imagery and alliteration. One way that Hopkins vividly portrays his love of imperfections by his choice of words. For example "For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swims;" by that Gerard Hopkins said that the moles on the trout’s body or scales that he compared with a beautiful rose. We all know that moles sometimes can be ugly and hideous‚ but to Hopkins - he said otherwise
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and analyze how Gerard Manley Hopkins marries the two themes of religion and nature together in his poem‚ “Pied Beauty”‚ and how these ideas are presented in terms of language‚ form‚ and structure. Firstly‚ Hopkins presents these two themes through peaceful imagery created by various aspects in the poem. For example‚ this is evident in “Landscape plotted and pieced – fold‚ fallow and plough”. The word choices in this line‚ include “plotted”‚ “pieced” and “plough”‚ which all fall into the semantic
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In the poem ‘God’s Grandeur’ by Gerard Manley Hopkins‚ the theme of imperfection and perfection is highlighted. The majority of the poem is a contrast between imperfection and perfection. The first stanza discusses the contrast between the two themes; perfection and imperfection‚ while in the second stanza; God’s perfection is mainly spoken about. Perfection The mere title of this poem suggests the poem is about something great and powerful. The word ‘grandeur’ is defined as splendour and impressiveness
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Gerard Manley Hopkins’s “Spring” and Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “Spring” offer contrasting depictions of spring. Hopkins’s “Spring” is a celebration of nature and the spirituality that comes with seasonal rebirth‚ while Millay’s “Spring” is spiteful and defiant towards poetic conventions about spring. These two poems initially seem to oppose one another‚ but Hopkins’s turn in tone and Millay’s repeating form expose deeper similarities between their concepts. Hopkins’s portrayal of the season in “Spring”
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Spring and Fall‚ written by Gerard Manley Hopkins‚ is a simple and graceful poem that has a powerful religious theme. It is about changing seasons and mankind’s mortality. The poem addresses Margaret‚ which is generally assumed to be a young girl. We assume this based on the use of the word Golden grove‚ which can mean a simple‚ dream-like‚ play-world. The narrator asks the young girl why Golden grove is "unleaving"‚ or losing its leaves. This falling of the leaves occurs in the autumn as
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