Gerard Manley Hopkins, selected poems Contents
- As Kingfishers Catch Fire
- Binsey Poplars
- The Blessed Virgin Mary Compared to the Air We Breathe
- Carrion Comfort
- Duns Scotus' Oxford
- God's Grandeur
- Harry Ploughman
- Henry Purcell
- Hurrahing in Harvest
- Inversnaid
- I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark
- Synopsis of I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark
- Commentary on I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark
- Language and tone in I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark
- Structure and versification in I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark
- Imagery and symbolism in I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark
- Themes in I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark
- The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo
- Synopsis of The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo
- Commentary on The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo
- Language and tone in The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo
- Structure and versification in The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo
- Imagery and symbolism in The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo
- Themes in The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo
- The May Magnificat
- My Own Heart, Let Me Have More Pity On
- Synopsis of My Own Heart, Let Me Have More Pity On
- Commentary on My Own Heart, Let Me Have More Pity On
- Language and tone in My Own Heart, Let Me Have More Pity On
- Structure and versification in My Own Heart, Let Me Have More Pity On
- Imagery and symbolism in My Own Heart, Let Me Have More Pity On
- Themes in My Own Heart, Let Me Have More Pity On
- No Worst, There is None
- Patience, Hard Thing!
- Pied Beauty
- The Sea and the Skylark
- Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves
- Spring
- Spring and Fall
- St. Alphonsus Rodriguez
- The Starlight Night
- That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection
- Synopsis of That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire
- Commentary on That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire
- Language and tone in That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire
- Structure and versification in That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire
- Imagery and symbolism in That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire
- Themes in That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire
- Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord
- Tom's Garland
- To Seem the Stranger
- To What Serves Mortal Beauty
- The Windhover
- The Wreck of the Deutschland
- Beauty and its purpose
- The beauty, variety and uniqueness of nature
- Christ's beauty
- Conservation and renewal of nature
- God's sovereignty
- The grace of ordinary life
- Mary as a channel of grace
- Nature as God's book
- Night, the dark night of the soul
- Serving God
- Suffering and faith
- The temptation to despair
- The ugliness of modern life
- Understanding evil in a world God has made
Themes in As Kingfishers Catch Fire
The Beauty, variety and uniqueness of Nature
See Henry Purcell and The Windhover.
Christ's beauty
Christ's beauty manifests itself through humanity, just as in Hurrahing in Harvest it manifests itself through the landscape. Beauty was a central concept of Duns Scotus's philosophy, too, so the aesthetic poet is at one with the philosophical priest.
The grace of ordinary life
The mention of ‘keeping grace' in l.10 is an ambiguous phrase:
- It could mean the normal religious phrase ‘(God's) grace keep you.'
- Or that the upright person stays within the grace they have been given, i.e. humans are given grace to accomplish the telos or ultimate purpose of their lives
- ‘Grace' is so called in Christian theology, because it is a gift not a right, nor is it particularly merited
- This grace ‘keeps all his goings graces': i.e. everything a just person does will be ‘gracious', or even ‘graceful'. People who encounter the just person will feel they have come in touch with God, as people are said to have felt when meeting Mother Teresa, for example.
Investigating As Kingfishers Catch Fire
- Do some research on the various meanings of the word ‘grace'.
- In what ways can Hopkins' poems be said to have grace?
the pursuit of truth through the study of ideas - including everything from ethics to existence
A person whose role is to carry out religious functions.
1. Devout, involved in religious practice
2. Member of a religious order, a monk or nun.
Undeserved favour. The Bible uses this term to describe God's gifts to human beings.
The study of God.
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