Sunday, November 7, 2021

"Pied Beauty" by Gerard Manley Hopkins

 

Pied Beauty


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.



Enjoy the poem with beautiful music.


poem video👇

https://youtu.be/dvhuY-C3jeY




Who wrote the poem "Pied Beauty"?


Gerard Manley Hopkins (July 28, 1844 – June 8, 1889)

Gerard Manley Hopkins was an English poet and Jesuit priest and is regarded as one of the greatest poets of the Victorian era. He never published his poems during his lifetime. His friend poet, Robert Bridges, published his poems after his death. His poetry was famous for its inventiveness and rich aural patterning. He often praised God through vivid use of imagery and nature in his poems.



"Pied Beauty" explanation


In the poem, the speaker celebrates the beauty and diversity of things in the universe and praises God for creating them.

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