Note: When you embed the widget in your site, it will match your site's styles (CSS). Nova - Call of Duty: Black Ops II Zombies – "Mob of the Dead" Soundtrack Album All Fall DownTreyarch feat. I Could Scream but I Know I Won't Hear My Self I'm A Slave To Synapses Thomas Hardy coined the word ‘unhope’ as the flipside of ‘hope’ for a similar reason: ‘unhope’ reminds us of the hope-that-should-be, in a way that plain ‘despair’ cannot.I Can Feel But I Still Can't Control My Self Hopkins describes despair as ‘carrion comfort’ to suggest that despair is the rotten and corrupt side of comfort, as though ‘comfort’ and ‘despair’ are more than opposites: once comfort decays and rots away, it turns to despair. Take that title, ‘Carrion Comfort’ – which isn’t a title Hopkins himself gave to the poem, although in the absence of any official title it has been used. Paraphrase destroys the texture and the layers of Hopkins’s language, of course – but as we say, there is no option really when faced with some of the images and phrases which Hopkins crams into his fourteen-line poem. So if all this hardship was ultimately for my own good, should I cheer God who inflicted it on me? Should I cheer myself for having survived the struggle? Or cheer both God and myself for that dark night of the soul (which lasted a year) when I lay battling God?’ Since I “kissed the rod” representing God’s rule, or rather since I kissed the hand that holds the rod, I have suffered hardship, true but my heart has known true joy too. Kevin Sherwood - Carrion (Lyrics Video) Tranzit Song MyckelJay 219K views 10 years ago My Mother Told Me (Vikings Tribute) Ruggito dell'Anima - Topic 31K views 1 year ago Alone OFFICIAL - Clark. In the sestet, Hopkins ponders the question: ‘Why would God want me to suffer so much? I am being blown about the place by these stormy winds so that the “chaff” or bad stuff might be blown away, and the wheat or “grain” that constitute my good parts be left unblemished. But why, God, would you rock my world with your powerful right hand, like a lion swiping at something with its mighty paw? And then look down at my bruised body and assault me with storms, while I lie there and long to flee?’ I can do something, even if it’s something as small as wishing for the morning to come or deciding not to end my life. I will not say “I can’t do this any more”. So, to paraphrase ‘Carrion Comfort’: ‘No, I will give in to despair, I will not let it unravel the last bits of me that remain intact, weak though these remaining parts of me are. Of course, we lose something through paraphrasing a Hopkins poem – the wonderfully idiosyncratic use of language – but then it’s this idiosyncrasy which sometimes makes Hopkins’s meaning difficult to understand. Of now done darkness I wretch lay wrestling with (my God!) my God.Įlsewhere, in our analysis of Shakespeare’s Sonnets, we’ve found that the best way to summarise the meaning of a poem, especially the argument of a sonnet, is to paraphrase it. Me? or me that fought him? O which one? is it each one? That night, that year Hand rather, my heart lo! lapped strength, stole joy, would laugh, chéer.Ĭheer whom though? the hero whose heaven-handling flung me, fóot tród Nay in all that toil, that coil, since (seems) I kissed the rod, Why? That my chaff might fly my grain lie, sheer and clear.
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