Gerard Manley Hopkins: Leading Questions (original) (raw)

Carrion Comfort

• Death and Struggle in Gerard Manley Hopkins' "Carrion Comfort"
• Groping Towards Truth in "Carrion Comfort"
• Jacob, The Angel, & Hopkins
• Job's Lament and “Carrion Comfort”

No worst, there is none

• The Downward Spiral: Shaping Consciousness, Time, and Grief in Hopkins' Sonnet 65, "No Worst, there is none"
• Hopkins's Interior Landscape in "No worst, there is none"

Pied Beauty

• Gerard Manley Hopkins's "Pied Beauty": Word-painting vs. Formal Innovation?
• “Pied Beauty”: God the Creator (Luke 2:12-14)

A Soliloquy of One of the Spies left in the Wilderness

• A Soliloquy of One of the Spies in Ireland
• Moses's Rock and the Nile
• Faith in Hopkins' "A Soliloquy of One of the Spies left in the Wilderness"

Spring and Fall

• Hopkins’s “Spring and Fall”
• Feeling and the Passing of Time in "Spring and Fall"
• Emotional Detachment in "Spring and Fall"

The Wreck of the Deutschland

• God's Terrible Beauty in "The Wreck of the Deutschland"
• Sprung Rhythm in Hopkins' "Wreck of the Deutschland"
• The Life that died, paradox in "The Wreck of the Deutschland"

Miscellaneous

• "The Candle Indoors"
• Gateways for the Dark Sonnets: "Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves" and "That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire"
• Ambiguity in "The Alchemist in the City"
• The Christian Self: Spiritual Ideals, Religious Symbolism, and Poetic Devices in Hopkins' "As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame"
• Boundaries of Self in "My own heart let me have more pity on"
• Word and Image in GM Hopkins� �The Windhover�
• Inscape/Landscape: Image as Type in the Poetry of G. M. Hopkins
• Stranger Among Strangers: Hopkins' Isolation from Society and God
• A loss of childhood, a looming discovery of death in Hopkins' poem "Spring and Fall"

Last modified 23 April 2011; thanks to John Jenkins for pointing out a typo.