* Pray
* Collect J28 - Hopkins' "Spring"
Points to Notice
- Stanza 1 (first paragraph of the poem) deals with spring.
- Stanza 2 introduces the idea that we have a part or thread or sound or strain of Eden still every year in spring.
- Stanza 3 encourages the reader to enjoy and keep that Eden garden innocence.
Images to ponder:
-"Rinse and wring/ The ear": think of laundry in the old days...what does this say about the effect the birds' song on our ears? Notice that ring and wring are different things. Notice how they have the same sound (homophones), which works well here.
-"Strikes like lightenings": Imagine the flash of the light, the quick, crisp sound before the heavy thunder. The light that strikes the eye is like the sound that strikes the ear. Notice that the lightenings are plural, many quick notes from the birds.
- The trees "brush" the blue above...another cleaning image. Notice the development of cleanness, purity, to reinforce innocence stated outright later.
- "Fair their fling": think of happy newborn lambs dancing about
- "Cloy": gluts; produces to the point of sickness; the idea is that this spring life will be ruined, so "[h]ave, get," appreciate it, take it in.
Do you see how he opens the poem with a statement, but what is a statement except an invitation to provide support and details...how? Through IMAGERY. That's how every story is told; that's how experience passes from you to someone else--through the imagery.
The last question is a real challenge, but notice how the alliteration (cloud, Christ...sour....sinning...Most...maid's....worthy...winning) provides greater emphasis on the important words and STRONGER IMAGES than the paraphrase. "Sour" gives a smell and taste where "taint" does not. "Winning" when you expect "save" gives a certain kind of saving that save cannot produce on its own; the winning internal feeling and emotions are brought along.
* Review Poems from Ch. 4
* CWP
HW: Work on your CWP
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