Glory be to God for dappled things –
For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;
Landscape plotted and pieced – fold, fallow, and plough;
And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.
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.
Gerard Manley Hopkins is one of the three or four greatest poets of the Victorian era. He is
regarded by different readers as the greatest Victorian poet of religion, of nature, or of
melancholy. However, because his style was so radically different from that of his
contemporaries, his best poems were not accepted for publication during his lifetime, and
his achievement was not fully recognized until after World War I. Manley Hopkins was the
founder of a marine insurance firm. It is no accident that shipwreck, one of the firm's primary
concerns, was the subject of Hopkins's most ambitious poem,
The Wreck of the Deutschland (1875).
An alliteration uses the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line
of a verse. This is an alliteration poem because Hopkins uses the same consonant at the
beginning of a few words in a line. He uses " Whatever is Fickle, Freckled (who knows
how?)". This is a good example of alliteration because of the "F's".
I chose this photo of someone praying because it shows how you should praise God and worship him. He is suppose to help you through hard times and help guide you. Me being apatheist and not caring much for a god you should be able to believe in yourself to get things done.