I'm teaching this tonight and may show this to my students just so they can see that some people really do like this stuff. The idea that one of them might someday remember it upon seeing a bird warms my heart, although I doubt it will happen. Thanks for the nice recitation.
Just as soil makes the plow that moves through it shine
so do embers of a dying flame sometimes break open and shine with an interior fire, like gold vermillion.
This is an example of Hopkins' idea of the inscape and is a metaphor (in a sense) for the same inscape he sees in the bird, which also breaks open with a fire that burns "a billion times more lovelier" when it flies with such perfection.
I've loved this and Hopkins since I was 18 and that is many long years ago. I so enjoyed your experience of him. Thanks you.
susantwatson 3 months ago
I'm teaching this tonight and may show this to my students just so they can see that some people really do like this stuff. The idea that one of them might someday remember it upon seeing a bird warms my heart, although I doubt it will happen. Thanks for the nice recitation.
JDennis1971 4 months ago
In case you haven't already figured it out:
Just as soil makes the plow that moves through it shine
so do embers of a dying flame sometimes break open and shine with an interior fire, like gold vermillion.
This is an example of Hopkins' idea of the inscape and is a metaphor (in a sense) for the same inscape he sees in the bird, which also breaks open with a fire that burns "a billion times more lovelier" when it flies with such perfection.
JDennis1971 4 months ago
sillion = soil... new earth to be exact
vermillion = pretty/beautiful... something sillion is not... at least not inherently... it's god's grandeur
in any case thanks for your recitation, it was exactly what i was looking for!
aveuch 1 year ago