counter‚ original‚ spáre‚ strange; Whatever is fickle‚ frecklèd (who knows how?) With swíft‚ slów; sweet‚ sóur; adázzle‚ dím; He fathers-forth whose beauty is pást change: Práise hím. Gerard Manley Hopkins‚ 1918 The Poetry Foundation http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/gerard-manley-hopkins "Gerard Manley Hopkins is one of the three or four greatest poets of the Victorian era. He is regarded by different readers as the greatest Victorian poet of religion‚ of nature‚ or of melancholy. However
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Topic: Refer to “A Different History” and “Pied Beauty” (1877). Discuss the way in which the cultures of the poets and the dominant cultures of their eras‚ affect the reader’s successful understanding of the above poems. Both the poems‚ “Pied Beauty” and “A Different History” were written within a similar time period and each poem conveys the poets’ views on culture and religion at the time. Nature is integrated in the poems and linked to religion while the poem itself challenges/questions.
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Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins This beautiful poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins runs on a single theme- Nature and its creator‚ God. He writes about the diversity and beauty of nature and how it changes everyday. Hopkins sees the power and creation of God through nature. This poem describes his wonder and awes at the creation of such an extraordinary and ever changing course that is nature. ‘Glory be to God for dappled things‚ For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow‚’ He uses
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Evaluation of Jones’ Persuasion Techniques The essay‚ “Violent media is good for kids”‚ written by Gerard Jones‚ was first published in Mother Jones magazine in the year 2000‚ and nearly two decades later‚ this subject is still relevant today. Jones is author of violent media himself‚ as he has written many books for Marvel Comics. The essay argues that violent media is good for kids‚ which is also Jones’ thesis. To support his thesis‚ Jones discusses several arguments‚ such as his personal experience
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459-60. Hodgson‚ Ralph‚ "Eve‚" Robert Atwan and Laurance Weider‚ eds. Chapters into Verse: A Selection of Poetry in English Inspired by the Bible: Genesis through Revelation (Oxford: Oxford University Press‚ 2000) 21-22. Gerard Manley Hopkins‚ "Spring and Fall". in The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins‚ ed. W. H. Gardner and N.H. MacKenzie (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press‚ 1970)‚ poem 37. Bosman‚ Leonard. The Meaning and Philosophy of Numbers. London: Rider‚ 1932. "The Birthmark"‚
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variety of beauty. The poem indicates that the beauty in the world is all due to the one ‘whose beauty is past change‚’ God‚ giving us a reason as to why we should ‘praise him.’ The constant and remaining theme in this poem was praising God. The poet‚ Gerard Manley Hopkins‚ delivered his overall message by distinguishing between the variety existing in contrast‚ especially in the second stanza and ‘whose beauty is past change‚’ making it constant‚ in the first stanza. This poem weighs heavily on religion
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Nasser Dr. Brenda Ayres ENGL 216-000 22 April 2013 “An Odd Poem About Oddities” A study of Gerard Manley Hopkins’ "Pied Beauty" Many early works about nature take their appreciation for our Father ’s artistic flair to an unwanted extreme. If individuals forget that nothing we enjoy would exist if the Creator did not have the urge to bring it about they displease Him for He is a jealous God. Gerard Manley Hopkins is one of the few authors that was able to sit back and adore nature without
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Victor Tio English 101 Tu/Th 10:30 Prof Magie A Critical Response to Timothy Egan “’The Good Rain: Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest’” In this essay “The Good Rain: Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest” Timothy Egan begins his essay by introducing himself that he was born in Seattle and graduated from the University of Washington and he is the Pulitzer Prize. He views Seattle as a new and interesting city which has changed a lot in the last century. Declining
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Violent Media is good for Kids by Gerard Jones Outline Introduction: Jones’s thesis expresses that violent media are not a bad influence on children‚ but it does however; allow them to better express themselves. They also can benefit them to release their inner rage as well as gaining their confidence. Body paragraph: Throughout Jones’s article he uses some persuasive antics to encourage readers that violent media can decrease the amount of rage and reckless a child can have… “ pretending to
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Rose” by Robert Burns‚ p. 565 "this morning (for the girls of eastern high school)” by Lucille Clifton‚ p. 566-567 “Because I could not stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson‚ p. 568-569 “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost‚ p. 575-576 “Pied Beauty” by Gerard Manley Hopkins‚ p. 578 “Harlem” by Langston Hughes‚ p. 579-580 “Written in Disgust of Vulgar Superstition" by John Keats‚ p. 582 “The New Colossus” by Emma Lazarus‚ p. 582 -583 Phase 4: “Reading Drama Responsively‚” pp. 599-600 “Drama in Popular
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