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.
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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. |
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