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Gerard Manley Hopkins SJ (28 July 1844 – 8 June 1889) was an English poet and Jesuit priest, whose posthumous fame places him among the leading English poets. His prosody – notably his concept of sprung rhythm – established him as an innovator, as did his praise of God through vivid use of imagery and nature.
The path of its departure still is free: Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability." The monster also quotes a line from the poem in Chapter 15 of Frankenstein, saying: "'The path of my departure was free;' and there was none to lament my annihilation." [2]
"Binsey Poplars" is a poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889), written in 1879. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The poem was inspired by the felling of a row of poplar trees near the village of Binsey , northwest of Oxford , England , and overlooking Port Meadow on the bank of the River Thames . [ 3 ]
None of them did.” ... There is nothing to avenge, no scores to settle once wounds have ... we can be free of it.” The TTPD booklet poem ends with the “all’s fair in love and poetry ...
Twitter user Ronnie Joyce came across the poem above on the wall of a bar in London, England. While at first the text seems dreary and depressing, the poem actually has a really beautiful message.
Muir considers that this makes the poem "among the worst he [Burns] wrote". [7] McGuirk argues that the poem is representative of Burns's inability in his early poems to conceive of an end other than death to the struggles and injustices of life. [8] Burns initially wrote the poem in response to pervasive "economic and social injustices" in ...
The following is the list of 244 poems attributed to Philip Larkin. Untitled poems are identified by their first lines and marked with an ellipsis.Completion dates are in the YYYY-MM-DD format, and are tagged "(best known date)" if the date is not definitive.
A delivery went awry at U.K.-based parcel firm DPD. Then a frustrated classical musician asked the bot some questions, with surprising results.