- Gerard Manley Hopkins, selected poems
- Poems for study
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The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo
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Language and tone in 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
Gerard Manley Hopkins, selected poems Contents
- Introduction
- Timeline
- Images
- Author(s)
- The context of writing
- Religious / philosophical context Show more
- Literary context Show more
- Hopkins' beliefs about religion and poetry Show more
- Poems for study
- As Kingfishers Catch Fire Show more
- Binsey Poplars Show more
- The Blessed Virgin Mary Compared to the Air We Breathe Show more
- Carrion Comfort Show more
- Duns Scotus' Oxford Show more
- God's Grandeur Show more
- Harry Ploughman Show more
- Henry Purcell Show more
- Hurrahing in Harvest Show more
- Inversnaid Show more
- I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark Show more
- 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 Show more
- My Own Heart, Let Me Have More Pity On Show more
- 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 Show more
- Patience, Hard Thing! Show more
- Pied Beauty Show more
- The Sea and the Skylark Show more
- Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves Show more
- Spring Show more
- Spring and Fall Show more
- St. Alphonsus Rodriguez Show more
- The Starlight Night Show more
- That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection Show more
- 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 Show more
- Tom's Garland Show more
- To Seem the Stranger Show more
- To What Serves Mortal Beauty Show more
- The Windhover Show more
- The Wreck of the Deutschland Show more
- Themes and significant ideas
- 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
- Critical analysis
- Approaching exams and essays
- Appendices
- Resources and further reading
Language and tone in The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo
- Several words are much used by Hopkins in this poem and elsewhere: for example ‘despair', ‘fonder'
- Noticeable is Hopkins' fondness for dialect words: for example ‘fashed', meaning vexed, or ‘cogged', meaning deceived.
1. A regional form of a language with particular features of vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation. 2. A way of speaking characteristic of a particular group.
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