Hopkins' 'Pied Beauty' is a unique example of a curtal sonnet. Explain the significance of these lines and the echo of an image by another poet. All things counter, original, spare strange; Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?) With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim; He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:
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A.
Hopkins is exploring his relationship with God through experimental stress patterns, syntax and language, which is similar to Eliot's in The Waste Land'
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B.
Hopkins, in this hymn, a paean, reinforces this notion of a changeless God divinely creating dappledness, complexity, variety and flux, similar to a kind God creating the Lamb and a punitive one, the Tyger in Blake
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Hopkins in these lines employs a telling alliterative rhythm - the sounds are similar, but signify contray and different values, as early English poets used to
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Hopkins observes here that the whole spectrum of nature in all its beauty is mysteriously germinated by Him, who is worth of praise and tries to imitate the tone and affect of the psalms
Correct Answer:
B. Hopkins, in this hymn, a paean, reinforces this notion of a changeless God divinely creating dappledness, complexity, variety and flux, similar to a kind God creating the Lamb and a punitive one, the Tyger in Blake
Explanation:
The most appropriate significance of the poem Pied Beauty by Hopkins is described in the option (b). Hence, option (b) is correct answer.
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