Hopkins Nature, Faith and Style

Question 1

Quote from ‘Spring’ to show awe and wonder at nature

Answer 1

“nothing is so beautiful as Spring-“

Question 2

Quote from ‘The Windhover’ to show awe and wonder at nature

Answer 2

“AND the fire that breaks from thee then, a billion Times told lovelier, more dangerous”

Question 3

Quote from ‘Pied Beauty’ to show awe and wonder at nature

Answer 3

“for skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow”

Question 4

Quote from ‘Spring’ presenting nature as fragile/innocent

Answer 4

“Thrush’s eggs look little low heavens”

Question 5

Quote from ‘Spring’ presenting nature as sacred

Answer 5

“A strain of the earth’s sweet being in the beginning”

Question 6

2 quotes from ‘Binsey Poplars’ that present nature as fragile

Answer 6

1. “Hack and rack the growing green!”

2. “Since country is so tender / To touch, her being so slender”

Question 7

Quote from ‘Pied Beauty’ that articulates the inscape of nature

Answer 7

“All things counter, original, spare, strange; / Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)”

Question 8

Quote from ‘As kingfishers catch fire’ that articulates the inscape of nature

Answer 8

‘Each mortal thing does one thing and the same: / Deals out that being indoors each one dwells;”

Question 9

2 quotes from Andromeda that shows faith being undermined

Answer 9

1. “doomed dragon’s food”

2. “Time past she has been attempted and pursued”

Question 10

1 quote from The Candle Indoors that shows how faith is undermined

Answer 10

1. “Come indoors, come home; your fading fire”

Question 11

Quote from Peace that shows faith involves uncertainty

Answer 11

“When will you, Peace, wild wooddove, shy wings shut, / Your round me roaming end, and under be my boughs?”

Question 12

Quote from The Candle Indoors that shows the speaker’s anxieties about their own faith

Answer 12

“What hinders? Are you beam-blind, [..] Are you that liar / And, cast by conscience out, spendsavour salt?”

Question 13

quote from Peace that shows the speaker’s anxieties about faith

Answer 13

“O surely, reaving Peace, my Lord should leave in lieu”

Question 14

Quote from Andromeda that suggests faith depends largely on patience

Answer 14

“All while her patience, morselled into pangs”

Question 15

Quote from Peace that suggests faith depends largely on patience

Answer 15

“And so he does leave Patience exquisite, / That plumes to Peace thereafter”

Question 16

Quote from Spring that shows the speaker’s anxiety about the sinfulness of mankind and whether or not God will save them

Answer 16

“Have, get, before it cloy / Before it cloud, Christ, lord, and sour with sinning, / Innocent mind and Mayday in girl and boy”

Question 17

Quote from Binsey Poplars that shows the speaker’s anxiety about the sinfulness of mankind and whether or not God will save them

Answer 17

“O if we but knew what we do / When we delve or hew”

Question 18

Quote from The Candle Indoors that shows the speaker’s anxiety about the sinfulness of mankind and whether or not God will save them

Answer 18

“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.—”

Question 19

Quote from Andromeda that shows the speaker’s anxiety about the sinfulness of mankind and whether or not God will save them

Answer 19

“Her Perseus linger and leave her tó her extremes?”

Question 20

Use of phonetic and structural devices in Spring to show the speaker’s intense emotion

Answer 20

• 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?”

Question 21

Use of phonetic and structural devices in The Candle Indoors to show the speaker’s intense emotion

Answer 21

• 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”

Question 22

Use of structure in The Windhover to imitate the meaning of the poem

Answer 22

• 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

Question 23

Use of structure in Pied Beauty to imitate the meaning of the poem

Answer 23

curtail sonnet - appropriate for a poem about uniqueness

Question 24

Poems that use the Pertrarchan sonnet form to develop argumentative/rhetoric logic

Answer 24

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.

Question 25

2 Quotes from The Windhover to show Hopkins’ use of biblical allusions to animate and inform his poetry

Answer 25

• ‘Daylight’s dauphin’

- ‘O, my chevalier!’

Question 26

3 quotes from Spring to show Hopkins’ use of biblical allusions to animate and inform his poetry

Answer 26

“The racing lambs too have fair their fling”
“A strain of the earth’s sweet being in the beginning”
“Innocent mind and Mayday in girl and boy”

Question 27

2 Quotes from Pied Beauty to show Hopkins’ use of biblical allusions to animate and inform his poetry

Answer 27

“Glory be to God for dappled things” (tone of praise/prayer)

“Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)”

Question 28

Quote from The Candle Indoors to show Hopkins’ use of biblical allusions to animate and inform his poetry

Answer 28

“Are you that liar/ And, cast by conscience out, spendsavour salt?”

Question 29

Poems in which Hopkins’ tone seems anecdotal or didactic, like a priest delivering a sermon

Answer 29

The Windhover: “I caught this morning morning’s minion”

Pied Beauty: “Glory be to God for dappled things/ Praise him.”

The Candle Indoors: “Some candle clear burns somewhere I come by”

Peace: “And so he does leave Patience exquisite / That plumes to Peace thereafter”