Sometimes people see exactly what they expect to see. When the family meets the traveling Bible salesman named Manley Pointer in “Good Country People”‚ they see him as an honest young man trying to make a living. However‚ when he seduces the learned daughter‚ Hulga‚ she finds out his true nature. Instead of a religious man who wants to spread the Will of God‚ he is a cynical atheist who uses his salesman disguise to get what he wants. As literary critic Kathleen Feeley says‚ “That the salesman is
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“Pied Beauty” points to Gerard Manley Hopkins’ power of sensuous appreciation of the beauty of the things around‚ his poetic concentration‚ compassion and above all‚ his unquestioning faith in God. All nature is good; “Because the Holy Ghost over the bent World broods with worm breast and with oh! Bright wings”. He believes that the created beauty is the reflections of God’s spirit‚ and the beauty of nature
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beauty. The poem indicates that the beauty in the world is all due to the one ‘whose beauty is past change‚’ God‚ giving us a reason as to why we should ‘praise him.’ The constant and remaining theme in this poem was praising God. The poet‚ Gerard Manley Hopkins‚ delivered his overall message by distinguishing between the variety existing in contrast‚ especially in the second stanza and ‘whose beauty is past change‚’ making it constant‚ in the first stanza. This poem weighs heavily on religion as
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this world will their innocence last? How long will it take for a human being to experience something that causes them to lose all innocence? Innocence is a characteristic of life that is slowly taken away by experience‚ just like how in Gerard Manley Hopkins poem‚ Spring and Fall‚ the cool winds of fall strip the trees of their leaves‚ leaving them bare for everyone to see. The entirety of the poem is all about innocence and experience and how they interact with each other. The first few lines
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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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Nineteenth-century English poet and priest Gerard Manley Hopkins is admired for the highly original use of rhythm in his poetry‚ a quality that can be seen in the following poems‚ “The Windhover‚” “Pied Beauty‚” and “Hurrahing in Harvest.” A windhover‚ also known as a kestrel‚ is a small type of falcon. These three poems express Hopkins’s devotion to the Catholic faith‚ as well as his fascination with the natural world. Like most of Hopkins’s poetry‚ the poems were first published in 1918‚ nearly
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In "Pied Beauty" we see a striking dualism in which the nature of beings is rendered in all that is unique‚ particular and individual. All multiplicity and diversity are the gift of God in the creation of being‚ emanating from Himself. Gerard Manley Hopkins gives praises to God for the natural beauty of the world‚ the variety of it and how everything fits together. God symbolizes what is constant and unchangeable. Unlike the things he creates‚ God never varies. Hopkins’ symbols confirm his theme
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The alalysis of poem «March» by Edward Thomas The poem ’March’‚ as the most of Thomas’s poems describes the state of nature. The mood of March days is briefly described through subtle details such as behavior of birds and plants and weather changes (from snow and rain to warmth and sunshine). In terms of structure and verse form‚ the poem isn’t divided into separate stanzas‚ but it can be logically parceled out in three parts. The first part (from the beginning to the line “As if the mighty
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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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’Spring’ ’How does Hopkins use language and style to convey his message to his readers?’ Gerard Manley Hopkins was a 19th-century poet whose poetry work mainly consisted of religion‚ nature and inner anguish as the main themes. Hopkins celebrated beauty in the nature world and he loved the season of spring‚ especially the freshness it brought. In most of his poems‚ like ’Spring’‚ Hopkins linked in nature to prayer and religion; he thought that the pure beauty in nature alone‚ was enough
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