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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