When will you ever, Peace, wild wooddove, shy wings shut,
Your round me roaming end, and under be my boughs? When, when, Peace, will you, Peace? I’ll not play hypocrite To own my heart: I yield you do come sometimes; but That piecemeal peace is poor peace. What pure peace allows Alarms of wars, the daunting wars, the death of it? O surely, reaving Peace, my Lord should leave in lieu Some good! And so he does leave Patience exquisite, That plumes to Peace thereafter. And when Peace here does house He comes with work to do, he does not come to coo, He comes to brood and sit. Hopkins is getting to the point that peace never comes to the creature, which may symbolize something more than it should. Though he doesn’t explicitly say there is a bird, he hints at the existence of one. However, this does not exactly mean there is one, which is also what many people believe about God. You can neither prove nor disprove the existence of God. The peace can also resemble the seventh day on which the Bible says that God rested. Because Gerard Manley Hopkins is very spiritual and incorporates that into his poems, it would only be natural to assume that this is the subject that he is speaking on, making subject of the poem ambiguous instead of precise.
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Glory be to God for dappled things—
For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches' wings; Landscape plotted and pieced—fold, fallow, and plough; And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim. All things counter, original, spare, strange; Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?) With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim; He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change: Praise him. In this poem, “Pied Beauty” by Gerard Manley Hopkins, he uses a verse form that he himself tries to create from nothing. If I were to guess, this would be a form of free verse. However; it is actually a form that Hopkins attempted to make call “sprung rhythm.” This style focuses on feet that contain a varied number of syllables per foot. The syllables in a foot usually range from one to four, and the first syllable is generally always stressed. I believe the reasoning for this style, which resembles much of free verse, is used to show that the beauty of the meaning of the words or lines are within the pushed together syllables and feet, hence the name “Pied Beauty.” It shows that you don’t have to have an elegant form or beautiful words, but you can use small words that you find meaning behind to take you a long way. Just like how the syllables and feet are pushed together, the poem talks about things that God made that have more than one thing to its outside appearance that still make it beautiful. The things he brings up are the different colors of the skies, the different colors on a cow, different textures and spots on a rose mole trout, and more. By using these as examples, they serve to strengthen the form of the poem as they themselves resemble the meaning and form of it. I awoke in the Midsummer not to call night, in the white and the walk of the morning:
The moon, dwindled and thinned to the fringe of a finger-nail held to the candle, Or paring of paradisaical fruit, lovely in waning but lustreless, Stepped from the stool, drew back from the barrow, of dark Maenefa the mountain; A cusp still clasped him, a fluke yet fanged him, entangled him, not quite utterly. This was the prized, the desirable sight, unsought, presented so easily, Parted me leaf and leaf, divided me, eyelid and eyelid of slumber. Hopkins recalls a night that he was woken up by the moon shining its way to give way to the sun. The sound seems to be one that is a morning, wake-up type of scheme. Then the words relate to that of just awakening to the dawn or dusk of the day. Because of that, Hopkins creates a sound and sense of entanglement and trying to break free from it. The entanglement may be the difficulty to wake up that people mainly show when they are slow to get up when they awaken. Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving? Leaves, like the things of man, you With your fresh thoughts care for, can you? Ah! as the heart grows older It will come to such sights colder By and by, nor spare a sigh Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie; And yet you will weep and know why. Now no matter, child, the name: Sorrow's springs are the same. Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed What heart heard of, ghost guessed: It is the blight man was born for, It is Margaret you mourn for. Hopkins is saying talking to someone over the death of a person named Margaret. Margaret also refers to pearls in the Bible though. Sometimes, people grieve over the loss of jewels and pearls because they can’t think of life without them if they have had them their entire lives. The talk of a loss moves on to try to sooth the situation over because he says there are things in life that will be even more tragic as you grow older. Yes. Why do we áll, seeing of a soldier, bless him? bless
Our redcoats, our tars? Both these being, the greater part, But frail clay, nay but foul clay. Here it is: the heart, Since, proud, it calls the calling manly, gives a guess That, hopes that, makesbelieve, the men must be no less; It fancies, feigns, deems, dears the artist after his art; And fain will find as sterling all as all is smart, And scarlet wear the spirit of wár thére express. Mark Christ our King. He knows war, served this soldiering through; He of all can handle a rope best. There he bides in bliss Now, and séeing somewhére some mán do all that man can do, For love he leans forth, needs his neck must fall on, kiss, And cry ‘O Christ-done deed! So God-made-flesh does too: Were I come o’er again’ cries Christ ‘it should be this’. Gerard Manley Hopkins speaks of the deeds of Christ and his love for men in his poem "The Soldier." Soldier in the poem is a metaphor for Christians, who are otherwise known as soldiers or servants of Christ. This is evident through his first line as it says "Why do we all, seeing a soldier, bless him?" In that sense, Hopkins is asking why do we bless a Christian when we see him. I would say Hopkins' tone is contradictory as he questions Christians and credits them. His credit to their action comes when brings in Christ's words to say "O Christ-done deed! So God-made-flesh does too." This brings the point to say that men give their best, which is what Christ sees as a deed he would accept since he himself was man at one point. At the same time the tone could be one of admiration because of how he admires that manliness of the soldiers. He speaks of Christ, who is his the Son of God, in a way that he is delighted to call him his King. He then comes to relate it to God saying that he may have sanctioned them to do what they do and be who they are. This goes to justify that he has admiration for the men, being that the author himself is a very religious person, since Christ was man and says he will come back as man again. |
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