"Pied Beauty" by Gerard Manley Hopkins (poetry)

[hausofultra]

That's your voice on the video? Holy crap. You have an awesome voice!

[UncleDon8]

From my perspective, Pied Beauty--like nearly all Hopkins' works--is about God. The wonderful thing about this poet is his technique, word choice, amazing modernism melded to an ancient faith so perfectly. Industrial Revolution?? maybe, but I don't hear it.

[Ceitagh]

Please record 'God's Grandeur' by GM Hopkins! It's my favorite of his poems and I would love to hear you recite it.

[Razzy8D]

I have know this 4 school

[melissalewis4ever]

Another poem I am studying. I love how this one is recited as well.

[tattoofthesun]

I cannot believe just how rightly you say "praise Him"

you pause perfectly

amazing justice has been done to this poem thanks to this video

thank you

[lindahogan11]

A lovely reading of a marvelous poem. Thank you.

[TRESBELA]

Yeah, I'm familiar with Hopkins work and most of his poetry is about marveling the beauty of nature that is in close relationship with God. Pied Beauty lists various examples o the marvels" an open chestnut, multi-colored birds, the work of man. Yes the industrial revolution was around the same time but Hopkins, i thik was far away from the shift in society.

[tattoofthesun]

@TRESBELA far, far away for sure!!

[bellrope]

I don't read anything that makes me think about "Industrial Revolution" though this was written during that period. To me it conjures visions of ever changing landscapes. The splendour of Nature with traces of mankind amid this glory.

[SpokenVerse]

It beats me too. I agree with you.

[TRESBELA]

Look at poems like the windhover and God's Grandeur. What mattered to him most was a closeness with nature itself not factories and railroads