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G.M Hopkins
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Gods grandeur - meaning | Explores the presence of god in the natural world, expressing awe at gods power |
| Q1 | “The world is charged with the grandeur of god” - the world is filled with gods energy (charged) and power |
| Q2 | “It will flame out like shining from shook foil” - gods presence bursts forward like light reflecting of tin foil, even when crumpled |
| Q3 | “Generations have trod, have trod, have trod” - humans have constantly harmed the earth and gods creation. |
| Q4 | “All is Seared with trade, bleared, smeared with oil” - human labour & industrialisation has ruined earths Natural beauty |
| Q5 | “Because the holy ghost over the bent world broads with warm breast ” - despite Harm, god watches over the world like a mother bird |
| Spring - meaning | Celebrates beauty and freshness of spring - comparing it to Eden, paradise on earth |
| Spring Q1 | “Nothing is so beautiful as spring” - no other time of year can compare to springs beauty |
| Spring Q2 | “The glassy pear tree leaves and blooms, they brush the descending blue” - shows nature blossoming and “glassy” suggests beautiful fragility |
| Spring Q3 | “What is all this juice and what is all this joy?” rhetorical Q, captures Hopkins awe of spring, “juice” refers to natural richness |
| Spring Q4 | “A strain of the earths sweet being in the beginning, in Eden garden” compares spring to the garden of Eden, a time before sin, spring is like a brief return to that time |
| Spring Q5 | Have, get before it cloy, before it cloud, Christ, lord and sour with sinning” - asks god to help us to appreciate springs beauty before it is ruined by sin. |
| Pied beauty - meaning | Hopkins praises god for the variety and imperfections in the world, the unexpected/unseen beauty |
| Pied beauty Q1 | “Glory be to god for dappled things” - sets the tone of prayer, thanking god for things that are varied, spotted or multicolored which are often overlooked |
| Pied beauty Q2 | “For skies of coupled colours as a brinded cow” -highlights how natures mixture of colours and patterns are beautiful even if seen as ordinary. |
| Pied beauty Q3 | “All things counter, original, spare, strange” - Hopkins lists qualities that show uniqueness, praising things that are non categorical, unusual or different |
| Pied beauty Q4 | “With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim” - shows how contrasting opposites are different but beautiful, suggesting variety makes life richer |
| Pied beauty Q5 | “He fathers forth whose beauty is past change, praise him” - shifts from the changing world to unchanging god, Hopkins asks for god to be praised for his eternity and his beauty |
| I wake and feel the fell of dark | Hopkins expresses isolation and inner trauma, highlighting an internal collapse and a separation from God |
| I wake and feel Q1 | “I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day” - not just a physical darkness, but an internal one. “Fell” shiws the severity, he is headed towards pain. |
| I wake and feel Q2 | “What hours, O what dark hours we have spent” - not just a bad night but long, painful, soul crushing hours - reflecting hopelessness |
| I wake and feel Q3 | “I am Gall, I am heartburn” - Using bodily image to depict his suffering. He isn’t feeling pain, he is pain. |
| I wake and feel Q4 | “Fresh filled, blood brimmed the cure” - human nature (flesh and blood) are full of sin. He feels cursed while “fill” and “brimmed” suggests his overflowing depression |
| I wake and feel Q5 | “Selfyeast of spirit a dull sour” - his soul is the yeast” that sours his life - self indicated spiritual decline |
| Felix Randal meaning | Reflects on the death of Felix Randal, a blacksmith - poem explores grief and religious comfort |
| Felix Randal Q1 | “Felix Randal the farrier, o is he dead then?” - opens with a shocking question showing disbelief, speaker is processing a great loss |
| Felix Randal Q2 | “Big boned and hardy handsome” - vivid image of Felix in his younger years, showing how far he has fallen |
| Felix Randal Q3 | “Sickness broke him. Impatient, he cursed at first, but mended” - Felix struggled with his illness at first but grew to accept it overtime - “mended” suggests spiritual healing. |
| Felix Randal Q4 | “Thou at the random grim forge, powerful amidst peers”- recalls Felix’s past as a blacksmith. “Grim forge” links the physical forge with fate and mortality, symbolizing life and death |
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