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    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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    Intertextuality

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    The poets (and scholars based on my research) who I will discuss in this essay have chosen to re-examine and transform the tradition—the scholars by studying the texts again in their original languages and contexts‚ and the creative writers by re-imagining the lives of women in the Bible—to discover the "creative power‚ dignity‚ and goodness" of women in their texts. Their work on the character of Eve‚ the archetypal woman in Western thought‚ as she appears in the Genesis accounts of creation and

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    Morgann Frazee Explication of God’s Grandeur Word Count: 772 February 20‚ 2013 Human Relationships and the Divine Relationships between humans and the Divine has been the subject of many authors’ writings; in fact the very first text ever published was the Bible which is the most comprehensive link between the Divine and humans. History is full of examples of people trying to define their relationship with the Divine or lack thereof. In the poem‚ “God’s Grandeur” by Gerard Manley Hopkins

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    Area of Study Essay- Journeys The Oxford Dictionary defines Journey as “an act of travelling from one place to another”; this could‚ of course‚ be taken literally. Instead‚ why not think of “places” as emotional or mental situations? So you take a journey between different emotional states. “The journey‚ not the arrival‚ matters.” This statement is correct for all four texts I will be discussing. The journey is more important than the arrival because it is the journey that makes people who they

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    Wukie/Poetry Poetry Analysis Examples Example I: Poetry Analysis of Robert Frost’s "Fire and Ice" By Chris Davidson In his poem “Fire and Ice” Robert Frost compares and contrasts the two destructive forces: fire and ice. In the first two lines of the poem he presents two options for the end of the world: an end by fire or by ice. He takes the position of fire in the next two lines and relates fire to desire. This comparison suggests that Frost views desire as something that consumes

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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

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    The Poet Gerald Manley Hopkins was a Jesuit Priest. The Poem was written in 1880.He was an English man. He was a 19th century Poet. He got Fame after his death. According to Poet Spring is a sign of fresh life or new birth and Fall means biblical fall of man from grace which led to his mortality. In “Spring and Fall‚" Hopkins explains to a child that we all age and die. That Margaret‚ like all of us‚ must deal with this fact and not let the knowledge of it hold her back from life. This is a message

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    Spring and Fall

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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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    Innocence and Experience

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    Innocence and Experience What does it mean to “lose” one’s innocence? Some may say innocence is lost when the belief in Santa Claus has vanished or when parents let their children have a sip of their bitterly harsh grape juice. Innocence could be lost along with the loss of pure virginity. That being said‚ is innocence even something that is lost‚ or did it even exist in the first place? A baby is in their mother’s womb; a place where they are sheltered from all the horrors of the world. Once

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    The Circadian rhythm is a daily cycle of biological activity based on a 24-hour period and influenced by regular variations in the environment‚ such as the alternation of night and day. Circadian rhythms include sleeping and waking in animals and flowers closing and opening. The 24-hour sleep–waking cycle is a good example of a circadian rhythm because it clearly illustrates that circadian rhythms depend on an interaction of physiological and psychological processes. Our fairly consistent sleep pattern

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