{"id":2467,"date":"2017-11-27T00:00:54","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T05:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=2467"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:45:52","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:45:52","slug":"nov-27-g-m-hopkin-sj-the-caged-skylark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2017\/11\/27\/nov-27-g-m-hopkin-sj-the-caged-skylark\/","title":{"rendered":"Nov 27 G M Hopkin sj ‘the caged skylark”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Monday, November 27 \u00a0 \u2014 \u00a0\u201cMan\u2019s mounting spirit in his bone-house, mean house, dwells\u201d<\/p>\n

Back to work after a lovely 4 day weekend, a weekend that can open the imagination to beauty and stillness and rest. \u00a0 Turning back into a five day work week sometimes wears, even grinds. \u00a0 Perhaps that\u2019s what brought G. M. Hopkins to this metaphor: a skylark\u2019s wild explosions of energy and what happens when all that free spirit gets caged, skylark caged, a human being caged, \u201cday-laboring-out life\u2019s age.\u201d<\/p>\n

The cage does not define the lark, nor the daily burdens define the person. \u00a0A reminder: \u00a0it helps when reading Hopkins, to give his word play a practice run until you get the cadences right and until you give his word choices a chance startle your imagination and make you smile.<\/p>\n

Three good surprises today? \u00a0Sure. \u00a0 Have a blest week.<\/p>\n

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john sj<\/p>\n

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Today\u2019s Post:\u00a0 \u201cThe Caged Skylark\u201d<\/p>\n

AS a dare-gale skylark scanted in a dull cage<\/p>\n

Man\u2019s mounting spirit in his bone-house, mean house, dwells\u2014<\/p>\n

That bird beyond the remembering his free fells;<\/p>\n

This in drudgery, day-labouring-out life\u2019s age.<\/p>\n

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Though aloft on turf or perch or poor low stage,<\/p>\n

Both sing somet\u00edmes the sweetest, sweetest spells,<\/p>\n

Yet both droop deadly s\u00f3metimes in their cells<\/p>\n

Or wring their barriers in bursts of fear or rage.<\/p>\n

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Not that the sweet-fowl, song-fowl, needs no rest\u2014<\/p>\n

Why, hear him, hear him babble and drop down to his nest,<\/p>\n

But his own nest, wild nest, no prison.<\/p>\n

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Man\u2019s spirit will be flesh-bound when found at best,<\/p>\n

But uncumbered: meadow-down is not distressed<\/p>\n

For a rainbow footing it nor he for his b\u00f3nes r\u00edsen.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

G. M. Hopkins, sj \u00a0 1844-1889<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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