{"id":2827,"date":"2018-11-30T14:55:47","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T19:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=2827"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:45:04","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:45:04","slug":"nov-30-meadow-down-is-not-distressed-for-a-rainbow-footing-it-gerard-manley-hopkins-sj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2018\/11\/30\/nov-30-meadow-down-is-not-distressed-for-a-rainbow-footing-it-gerard-manley-hopkins-sj\/","title":{"rendered":"Nov 30 – “meadow-down is not distressed for a rainbow footing it” – gerard manley hopkins sj"},"content":{"rendered":"

Friday, November 30 \u00a0 – \u00a0 \u00a0the \u00a0last day of November<\/p>\n

I\u2019m crazy busy today but a GMH can stand by itself and bless anybody. \u00a0Who knows what intuition led Hopkins to this metaphor – – a skylark\u2019s wild explosions of energy and what happens when all that free spirit gets caged \u2014 skylark caged, a human being caged . . . . \u00a0\u201cday-laboring-out life\u2019s age.\u201d \u00a0The cage does not define the lark, nor do daily burdens define the person. \u00a0\u00a0Our campus is approaching final exams; lots of hard work and lots of worn down students, faculty, and staff. \u00a0\u00a0This afternoon\u2019s low-in-the-sky sun, pale & delicate can anoint our fatigue.<\/p>\n

It 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 to startle your imagination and make you smile.<\/p>\n

Welcome to December,<\/p>\n

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john st sj<\/p>\n

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Today\u2019s Post<\/strong>:\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

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G.\u00a0M. Hopkins, sj \u00a0 1844-1889<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Friday, November 30 \u00a0 – \u00a0 \u00a0the \u00a0last day of November I\u2019m crazy busy today but a GMH can stand by itself and bless anybody. \u00a0Who knows what intuition led Hopkins to this metaphor – – a skylark\u2019s wild explosions … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11641],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2827"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2828,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2827\/revisions\/2828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}