When Mr Kunitz says of Hopkins, "I couldn't believe what I was reading!" I know the sensation -- when I encountered Dylan Thomas at sixteen, the sensation was very much the same!
"There lives the dearest freshness deep down things." Amen, Fr Hopkins! And thank you, Favorite Poem Project, for this glimpse at the beauty ever ancient and ever new!
Beautiful reading of Hopkins. Love the way Kunitz balances the contemplative with the oratory. Readers of this poem and other Hopkins' work often get too theatrical. Very moving interpretation.
i just love how classic lit can put even the most complicated things in life into perspective. hopkins says that even the very shoes we wear have alienated ourselves from nature.." ..nor can foot feel being shod." but god still gives us nature..the dark becomes light each day and each day we have a chance to become one with it again.
I think the quote, "nor can foot feel being shod" mean the shoe is on the other foot. After generations of consuming oil we don't realize that we have passed a peak in oil production. Each day we beging with a brown or polluted horizon obscured by a brighter religious ideology.
I say this because the time period was the Romance era where poems like Browning's "porphiry's lover" and Poe's "the raven" share a perversion of Christian ideology.
When Mr Kunitz says of Hopkins, "I couldn't believe what I was reading!" I know the sensation -- when I encountered Dylan Thomas at sixteen, the sensation was very much the same!
"There lives the dearest freshness deep down things." Amen, Fr Hopkins! And thank you, Favorite Poem Project, for this glimpse at the beauty ever ancient and ever new!
dylan618 7 months ago
Beautiful, thanks!
uchicuchi77 9 months ago
We analyzed this poem in Lit class. It killed us, but in a good way. I love it, and Kunitz does a great job reading it.
Weirdohkjsfd 1 year ago
Beautiful reading of Hopkins. Love the way Kunitz balances the contemplative with the oratory. Readers of this poem and other Hopkins' work often get too theatrical. Very moving interpretation.
rabbitrunwun 1 year ago
Love it!
melissalewis4ever 1 year ago
and mr kunitz himself is an icon of poetry :)
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charlottepoet 2 years ago
I have an exam on this in a couple of days and it helps with my studying..so thanks so much for posting it...and thanks Mrs.H for recommending this.
Purpleheart360 2 years ago
i just love how classic lit can put even the most complicated things in life into perspective. hopkins says that even the very shoes we wear have alienated ourselves from nature.." ..nor can foot feel being shod." but god still gives us nature..the dark becomes light each day and each day we have a chance to become one with it again.
TRESBELA 2 years ago
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I think the quote, "nor can foot feel being shod" mean the shoe is on the other foot. After generations of consuming oil we don't realize that we have passed a peak in oil production. Each day we beging with a brown or polluted horizon obscured by a brighter religious ideology.
I say this because the time period was the Romance era where poems like Browning's "porphiry's lover" and Poe's "the raven" share a perversion of Christian ideology.
arssfarger 6 months ago
I chose this poem to memorize for my English class. Thanks, it helps to hear someone else recite it (especially Stanley Kunitz).
malcolm345 3 years ago
its so sad that he is dead
theworldisnuckingfut 3 years ago