The accents and downbeats are concentrated together. The rhythm consists of small explosions of energy. Often, the grouping of accented syllables results in the cramming together of meaning as well. A perfect example occurs in line 4: Fresh fire -coal chest -nut- falls. Hopkins literally fuses words together in order to have the maximum amount of meaning and accents using the minimum number of words. The rhythm is characterized by stops and starts. Another way that Hopkins creates strong accents is by using alliteration everywhere.
There is alliteration in almost every single line. In line three another combination appears: rose-moles, which are reddish spots on the sides of trout. This line has assonance in a 13 syllable mix of vowels - like the flow that runs over and hits stones in a stream:. From the celestial to the terrestrial to the liquid, air, earth and water, the three elements, needing only fire to complete the set. Here is the fourth element, fire, in the form of recently fallen chestnuts either horse or sweet , which tend to shine as if they're alight when they're fresh on the ground.
The variegated texture and colour of finches' wings is well known, the goldfinch being especially beautiful. But could it be that Hopkins chose the finch to highlight his discomfort with Darwin's theory of evolution?
Both Darwin and Hopkins were aware of the bewildering variety of design in nature - Hopkins saw this as evidence of the 'soul of the deity' and created his own spiritual poetry to help express his own inner feelings. Darwin, on the other hand, was above all else a scientist and chose to publish his findings in a book, The Origin of Species. This one publication caused uproar. Line five moves the reader out into the countryside, where neat fields fit together with copse and woodland, where the texture and colour vary.
Again alliteration is present, as is a minifeast of long and short vowels in fold, fallow, and plough. Human interaction is brought into the poem for the first time as line six follows the plough, the speaker suggesting that the work of humankind is also to be attributed to the all encompassing dappledness, God-given.
Trades - all the work done by people - need tools and equipment and the speaker reaffirms the work of God in the regular their gear and tackle and trim.
So ends the sestet, a packed stanza with heavy punctuation semi-colons at the end of most lines and unusual rhythms, giving the reader an insight into all things pied, as inspired by the speaker's God.
Pied Beauty is a sort of hymn, a paean, and the next five lines reinforce this notion of a changeless God divinely creating dappledness, complexity, variety and flux. Everything that is a little bit odd, nuanced, rare and contrary; all fickle things, including humankind, all freckled things including faces and skin are mysteriously brought into the world by God.
The whole spectrum of nature in all its beauty is germinated by Him, who is worthy of praise. With swift , slow ; sweet , sour ; a dazzle , dim;. Pied Beauty has varied metre meter in USA throughout, reflecting the pied nature of things. Using the first line as an example:. Marine Biology. Electrical Engineering. Computer Science. Medical Science. It is one of his most popular poems today although, like nearly all his output, it was unknown by the general public for many years after the time of its writing.
In he had been inspired to resume his poetry writing after a gap of seven years, and the two years before he was ordained as a Catholic priest in September were among his most productive, with a third of all his mature poems being written at this time. The Poem. 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: Praise him. The curtal sonnet. The curtal sonnet was an experimental poetic form that compressed the traditional sonnet of fourteen lines, divided between octave and sestet, to ten and a half lines in which there is a first section of six lines and a second section of four and a half lines.
Sprung rhythm. However, the beat of the line should be regular when it is read, which means that the intervening syllables should be read faster or slower to make this possible.
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