I love Hopkins. I like his sprung rhythm concept, although I do not always get it. I love. his spondees and alliteration. I read his works and am dazzled. Then I stand back and break them down to individual sentences or phrases and that helps me to get the imagery. I love poems that send me to the dictionary. "Degged" turns out to mean precisely what I thought from the context.
It took me a good reading before I could figure out the meaning of "burn" and I loved the unusual use of "flutes".
Thank you so much! And a hat-tip to Robert Bridges.
Hopkins is such an advocate of nature and its magnificence. It's amazing to think that he created such a "contemporary' poem almost 150 years ago.
I like Berry. I love the allusion to Yeats:
Thank you for referencing "An Encounter". What a lovely poem!
I love Hopkins. I like his sprung rhythm concept, although I do not always get it. I love. his spondees and alliteration. I read his works and am dazzled. Then I stand back and break them down to individual sentences or phrases and that helps me to get the imagery. I love poems that send me to the dictionary. "Degged" turns out to mean precisely what I thought from the context.
It took me a good reading before I could figure out the meaning of "burn" and I loved the unusual use of "flutes".
Thank you so much! And a hat-tip to Robert Bridges.
Hopkins is such an advocate of nature and its magnificence. It's amazing to think that he created such a "contemporary' poem almost 150 years ago.
I like Berry. I love the allusion to Yeats:
Thank you for referencing "An Encounter". What a lovely poem!