Hopkins Nature, Faith and Style Flashcards
Quote from ‘Spring’ to show awe and wonder at nature
“nothing is so beautiful as Spring-“
Quote from ‘The Windhover’ to show awe and wonder at nature
“AND the fire that breaks from thee then, a billion Times told lovelier, more dangerous”
Quote from ‘Pied Beauty’ to show awe and wonder at nature
“for skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow”
Quote from ‘Spring’ presenting nature as fragile/innocent
“Thrush’s eggs look little low heavens”
Quote from ‘Spring’ presenting nature as sacred
“A strain of the earth’s sweet being in the beginning”
2 quotes from ‘Binsey Poplars’ that present nature as fragile
- “Hack and rack the growing green!”
2. “Since country is so tender / To touch, her being so slender”
Quote from ‘Pied Beauty’ that articulates the inscape of nature
“All things counter, original, spare, strange; / Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)”
Quote from ‘As kingfishers catch fire’ that articulates the inscape of nature
‘Each mortal thing does one thing and the same: / Deals out that being indoors each one dwells;”
2 quotes from Andromeda that shows faith being undermined
- “doomed dragon’s food”
2. “Time past she has been attempted and pursued”
1 quote from The Candle Indoors that shows how faith is undermined
- “Come indoors, come home; your fading fire”
Quote from Peace that shows faith involves uncertainty
“When will you, Peace, wild wooddove, shy wings shut, / Your round me roaming end, and under be my boughs?”
Quote from The Candle Indoors that shows the speaker’s anxieties about their own faith
“What hinders? Are you beam-blind, [..] Are you that liar / And, cast by conscience out, spendsavour salt?”
quote from Peace that shows the speaker’s anxieties about faith
“O surely, reaving Peace, my Lord should leave in lieu”
Quote from Andromeda that suggests faith depends largely on patience
“All while her patience, morselled into pangs”
Quote from Peace that suggests faith depends largely on patience
“And so he does leave Patience exquisite, / That plumes to Peace thereafter”
Quote from Spring that shows the speaker’s anxiety about the sinfulness of mankind and whether or not God will save them
“Have, get, before it cloy / Before it cloud, Christ, lord, and sour with sinning, / Innocent mind and Mayday in girl and boy”
Quote from Binsey Poplars that shows the speaker’s anxiety about the sinfulness of mankind and whether or not God will save them
“O if we but knew what we do / When we delve or hew”
Quote from The Candle Indoors that shows the speaker’s anxiety about the sinfulness of mankind and whether or not God will save them
“By that window what task what fingers ply, / I plod wondering, a-wanting, just for lack / Of answer the eagerer a-wanting Jessy or Jack / There / God to aggrándise, God to glorify.—”
Quote from Andromeda that shows the speaker’s anxiety about the sinfulness of mankind and whether or not God will save them
“Her Perseus linger and leave her tó her extremes?”
Use of phonetic and structural devices in Spring to show the speaker’s intense emotion
- Polysyndeton ‘long and lovely and lush’ conveys awe and excitement at arrival of spring
- Rhetorical question shows disbelief and awe at nature’s beauty: “What is all this juice and all this joy?”
Use of phonetic and structural devices in The Candle Indoors to show the speaker’s intense emotion
- Plosive alliteration suggests the speaker’s fear of figurative darkness: “I muse at how its being puts blissful back / With yellowy moisture mild night’s blear-all black”
- Dental alliteration suggests the speaker is dazzled by the light: “to-fro tender trambeams truckle at the eye”
Use of structure in The Windhover to imitate the meaning of the poem
- Enjambment mirrors perpetual motion of the bird, moving from one line to the next
- Contrast of soft alliteration (“As a skate’s heel sweeps smooth on a bow-bend”) and harsh alliteration to describe the bird (“dapple-dawn-drawn”) showing its many qualities
- Sprung rhythm may imitate the flapping of wings
Use of structure in Pied Beauty to imitate the meaning of the poem
curtail sonnet - appropriate for a poem about uniqueness
Poems that use the Pertrarchan sonnet form to develop argumentative/rhetoric logic
Spring: octet for beauty of spring, sestet urging mankind to not let children sin
The Candle Indoors: octet for conviction that people should do God’s will, sestet for speaker criticizing their own lack of faith
Andromeda: octet conveys Andromeda’s tortured past and present; sestet anticipates (and describes?) Perseus’ intervention.
