\n“Must be spring. \u00a0I checked\u00a0Weather.com<\/a>\u2019s allergy tracker this morning, a respiratory spring ritual for me and for many others. \u00a0Worth it, though. \u00a0Today\u2019s dawn might be the seventh glorious morning in a row. \u00a0Campus trees and flowers begin to show their stuff. \u00a0Adults and children skip and laugh. \u00a0 \u00a0Yesterday, two girls (8 years old?) played among older people who have come to watch Detroit Mercy\u2019s women\u2019s softball team play Green Bay\u2019s. \u00a0The girls, one African American, one Caucasian, ran and laughed with reckless abandon and filled our urban space with . . . .\u00a0with Spring.\u201d<\/p>\n
A year ago on a similar morning the season\u2019s sheer beauty led me to Gerard Manley Hopkins, s.j. \u00a0\u00a0\u201cThe Windhover\u201d helps the reader come alive as its beauty of word and sound\u00a0match these days. \u00a0Even if it takes two or three readings to adapt your ear to his word play, it\u2019s worth it. \u00a0 Hopkins is \u00a0[in]famous for the packed meaning of his vocabulary. \u00a0 His life-long friend Robert Bridges often ground his aesthetic teeth at what seemed to him to be GMH’s unnecessary complexity. \u00a0 On November 6, 1887, Hopkins wrote Bridges, attempting to explain the density of his language. \u00a0 Did GMH tease his frustrated Poet Laureate friend by creating a single sentence that never seems to run out of breath?<\/p>\n
\u201cPlainly if it is possible to express a subtle and recondite thought on a subtle and recondite subject in a subtle and recondite way and with great felicity and perfection in the end,\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0something must be sacrificed, with so trying a task, in the process, and this may be the being at once, nay perhaps even the being without explanation at all, intelligible.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Which is more wild and crazy challenging? \u00a0Hopkin\u2019s masterpiece \u201cDapple dawn drawn falcon\u201d or his tease to his friend? \u00a0 If you find the time during this spring-sunshine 2019 Monday, test it out by trying to read both out loud, with pauses.<\/p>\n More sun than clouds or rain this week. \u00a0 Have a\u00a0blest Monday.<\/p>\n john sj<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Today\u2019s Post: \u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cThe Windhover:\u00a0To Christ our Lord\u201d<\/p>\n I caught this morning morning\u2019s minion, king- Brute beauty and valor and act, oh, air, pride, plume here No wonder of it: \u00a0sh\u00e9er pl\u1ed1d makes plough down sillion Gerard Manley Hopkins https:\/\/owlcation.com\/humanities\/Analysis-of-Poem-The-Windhover-by-Gerard-Manley-Hopkins<\/a><\/p>\n Unusual Words in Windhover<\/strong><\/p>\n Line 1 : minion – darling A glimpse of spring from three years ago \u00a0 \u2014- > \u00a0leaves and flowers waking up Posted Monday, April 18, 2016: “Must be spring. \u00a0I checked\u00a0Weather.com\u2019s allergy tracker this morning, a respiratory spring ritual for me and for many others. … Continue reading
\ndom of daylight\u2019s dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in
\nhis riding
\nOf the rolling level underneath him steady air, and striding
\nHigh there, how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing
\nIn his ecstasy! \u00a0then off, off forth on swing,
\nAs a skate\u2019s heel sweeps smooth on a bow-bend: the hurl
\nand gliding
\nRebuffed the big wind. My heart in hiding
\nStirred for a bird,\u2013the achieve of, the mastery of the thing!<\/p>\n
\nBuckle! \u00a0And the fire that breaks from thee then, a billion
\nTimes told lovelier, more dangerous, O my chevalier!<\/p>\n
\nShine, and blue-bleak embers, a my dear,
\nFall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2014\/11\/GMHopkins.jpg\")
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\n28 July 1844 \u2013 8 June, 1889<\/p>\n
\nLine 2 : dauphin – french for eldest son of the king
\nLine 4 : rung upon – to lead a horse in a circle on a long rein wimpling: rippling
\nLine 10 : buckle – either to fasten into one, or to collapse\/crumble away.
\nLine 11 : chevalier – french for knight, champion
\nLine 12 : sillion – ridge between two furrows
\nLine 14 : gall – break the surface of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"