Nineteenth-century English poet and priest Gerard Manley Hopkins is admired for the extremely original usage of beat in his poesy. a quality that can be seen in the undermentioned verse form. “The Windhover. ” “Pied Beauty. ” and “Hurrahing in Harvest. ” A windhover. besides known as a sparrow hawk. is a little type of falcon. These three verse forms express Hopkins’s devotedness to the Catholic religion. every bit good as his captivation with the natural universe. Like most of Hopkins’s poesy. the verse forms were foremost published in 1918. about 20 old ages after his decease. In a note on the spiritual life of Hopkins ( 1840-1889 ) Humphrey House expresses the position that Hopkins was non a mysterious and that there is nil in the verse form of Hopkins to demo that he feels the immediate and personal presence of God. It is impossible to hold with Humphrey House in this affair. because contrary seems to be the instance. Hopkins was by nature a profoundly spiritual adult male ; he was an fervent truster in God and in the deity of Christ. What is more. he saw God everyplace and specially in the objects of nature. Every where in his poesy we find him showing a ardent belief in God and Christ and raising the divinity ; “Thou get the hanging me
God! Giver of breath and staff of life ;World’s strand. sway of the sea ;Lord of life and dead” ;
Hopkins being a keenly sensuous poet and a Roman Catholic priest at the same clip his poesy bears the unmistakable cast of his poetic esthesia and devotional excitement. The poet and the priest in Hopkins are frequently in struggle and bring forth a batch of tensenesss. There are merely a few verse forms in which the contradiction seems to be resolved and the poet and the priest are in harmoniousness. Hopkins’s “Pied Beauty” is one of such verse forms.
“Pied Beauty” points to poet’s power of sensuous grasp of the beauty of the things around. his poetic concentration. compassion and above all. his unquestioning religion in God.
All nature is good ;“Because the Holy Ghost over the setWorld broods with worm chest and with Ohio!Bright wings” .
He believes that the created beauty is the contemplations of God’s spirit. and the beauty of nature is invariably reborn and renewed through the incubation of the Holy Ghost over the dead set universe. The universe has been twisted and bent by work forces. Nature has been polluted and violated by man’s industrial activities. Yet the beauty of nature is ne’er exhausted because ; “The universe is charged with the magnificence of God. It will flare out. like reflecting from shook foil ; It gather to a illustriousness. like the sludge of oil crushed” . God is in and over nature like the dove incubation over its immature 1s with protecting attention and fondness. The Christian construct of God as love and defender is vividly expressed in the last two lines ; “He male parents forth whose beauty is past alteration: Praise him” .
The very look “Pied Beauty” means motley beauty of things. The motley beauty of things with their of all time altering ( switching ) coloring material and signifiers is really much pleasing to the poet. But the realisation that they all are the manifestations of the beauty and grace of the supreme Godhead feels his bosom with admiration and esteem.
The realisation that each and every ordinary object of the universe of nature has on it the touch of a charming manus of the supreme creative person includes one to idolize. sing the glorification and grace God. The sky of couple color brings the association spotted cattles. The trouts that swim have on them rose-spot on points attractively distributed. The thorax nuts that falling from the trees is bright ruddy in coloring material like glowing coal in a fire. Landscapes and sky-scapes are ne’er likewise ; the lands being in secret plans and pieces and the sky of all time altering its coloring material.
Though God has created this of all time altering and invariably switching view around us. he himself is past alteration. He who with paternal fondness and crashing tenderness has created thins of perplexing diverseness is himself capable to no alteration. All things that are strikingly different of the same Godhead who is above difference ; He has created some contrasting things such as – speed and awkwardness. sugariness and tartness. dazzle and duskiness.
So the universe of nature with its varied signifiers of beauty has its entreaty to the sensuous poet. but he sees it in the visible radiation of his devotedness. It appears decidedly more beautiful. He finds that each and every object of nature glowing with the glorification of God and transporting to him the hint of deity. Thus the poet concludes his verse form with an invitation to all. to praise the glorification and grace of God.
