Tag: gerard manley hopkins

• [posting] As Kingfishers Catch Fire: A Close Reading

  Gerard Manley Hopkins’s poetry is stunningly difficult to parse, but when exploring the spaces of and between his words, one cannot help but come to a deep appreciation of the ideals that Hopkins imagined within his poetry. In “As Kingfishers Catch Fire”, Hopkins looks at a concept he considered deeply: ‘selving’. Using a combination of…

  dappled-things

  May 11, 2018

  literary critique, nonfiction

  as kingfishers catch fire, critique, gerard manley hopkins, inspirational, literature, poetry, spirituality

• [quote] Gerard Manley Hopkins – Pied Beauty

  

  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…

  dappled-things

  March 14, 2018

  literature

  Christianity, gerard manley hopkins, inspiration, literature, nature, poetry