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The Fall season is on us ! Lament ! youtube/watch?v=BrqZMuTiqi4&sns=em Gerard Manley Hopkins is a British Jesuit poet. One of my favourite poets, not prolific. I like this poem, for its layers of meaning, imagery, symbolism, succinctness, & its subject. It is many things: literally, its central image is of the Fall season; birth (spring) & Fall (of man), and banishment from the Garden of Eden, as Christians understand it; loss of innocence; evil in the world, etc.. If you look below the video screen, among lectures on poetry, you will notice a 1hr, 21 min. video lecture on Hopkins literary work: Our Life in Poetry: Gerard Manley Hopkins. Victorianweb has a commentary on the poem: victorianweb.org/authors/hopkins/block.html
Posted on: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 14:25:48 +0000

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