{"id":3865,"date":"2021-05-10T00:00:24","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T04:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/?p=3865"},"modified":"2021-05-10T13:33:37","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T17:33:37","slug":"april-30-days-that-look-like-spring-should-feel-gerard-manley-hopkins-s-j-the-windhover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2021\/05\/10\/april-30-days-that-look-like-spring-should-feel-gerard-manley-hopkins-s-j-the-windhover\/","title":{"rendered":"April 30 – – days that look like Spring should feel – – Gerard Manley Hopkins, s.j. \u201cThe Windhover\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

April 30
\nPosted on April 22, 2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Must be spring; time to check Weather.com<\/a>\u2019s allergy tracker.<\/p>\n

Tasting the wind makes a respiratory spring ritual for me and many others. \u00a0Worth it, though. \u00a0 Campus trees and flowers begin to show their stuff. \u00a0Adults and children skip and laugh. \u00a0 \u00a0This morning, while my Lakota daughter Mary Tobacco sipped coffee & explored the day\u2019s options, a falcon, riding wind gusts, dancing far above me, showing off the breadth of the broad valley where we live, some 50 miles north of Detroit, showing off the wonders of the great city\u2019s far-flung northern fringes.<\/p>\n

Once again, on this late spring Friday morning, the season\u2019s sheer beauty led me to Gerard Manley Hopkins, s.j.\u00a0 \u201cThe Windhover.\u201d\u00a0 The poem, better, the poet\u2019s cadences and vocabulary, help the reader come alive as its beauty of word and sound match these days. \u00a0Even if it takes two or three readings to adapt your ear to his word play, it\u2019s worth it.<\/p>\n

Hopkins is [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\u2019s 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 Friday.<\/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-
dom of daylight\u2019s dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in
his riding
Of the rolling level underneath him steady air, and striding
High there, how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing
In his ecstasy! \u00a0then off, off forth on swing,
As a skate\u2019s heel sweeps smooth on a bow-bend: the hurl
and gliding
Rebuffed the big wind. My heart in hiding
Stirred for a bird,\u2013the achieve of, the mastery of the thing!<\/p>\n

Brute beauty and valor and act, oh, air, pride, plume here
Buckle! \u00a0And the fire that breaks from thee then, a billion
Times told lovelier, more dangerous, O my chevalier!<\/p>\n

No wonder of it: \u00a0sh\u00e9er pl\u1ed1d makes plough down sillion
Shine, and blue-bleak embers, a my dear,
Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nGerard Manley Hopkins
28 July 1844 \u2013 8 June, 1889<\/p>\n

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 \u2013 darling
Line 2 : dauphin \u2013 french for eldest son of the king
Line 4 : rung upon \u2013 to lead a horse in a circle on a long rein wimpling: rippling
Line 10 : buckle \u2013 either to fasten into one, or to collapse\/crumble away.
Line 11 : chevalier \u2013 french for knight, champion
Line 12 : sillion \u2013 ridge between two furrows
Line 14 : gall \u2013 break the surface of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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