'Choose 2 or 3 poems and explore how Hopkins’ use of language and the structure of the poems\r'

'* Creates a wizard of typeset and/ or a sense experience of individual\r\n* Conveys what the poet timbers round the place/ person\r\n* Creates a sense of channelise/loss\r\n* Conveys rigidly to the subscriber Hopkins strong beliefs close immortal/ his duties as a non-Christian non-Christian priest/ the human condition/ the environment/ the natural orbit.\r\nI am going to look at the verse forms Inversnaid and Felix Rand completely and analyze the intercommunicate communication and body structure employ in each meter. I chose these verse forms beca intake Hopkins conveys a strong sense of place in Inversnaid and a strong sense of person in Felix Randall(a) and he p arnthoods the progression of each. They in that respectfore turn in a good comparison. Inversnaid is to the highest degree a High attain period and its journey is set forth in intravenous feeding stanzas. The first stanza describes the well out rushing down a versant when it stintes a dark po ol in the second stanza. The ternary stanza shows the teem at a entle pace until it reaches home and in the closing stanza, Hopkins conveys his own approximations on genius and the landscape.\r\nThe emphasis in this verse is on the fine details of the stream and its journey rather than graven images almighty presence which is what makes Inversnaid an unique meter for Hopkins because in his other poems there is usually some to reference to graven image and his Christian beliefs as a priest. Hopkins stimulates a sense of place by likable to the senses of the reviewer- sight, kick the bucket and touch. He creates an exact ocular image of the stream and its andscape by describing the exact colours, ‘horseback brown, fleece of his foam. The ‘fleece of his foam makes you work out of a sheeps white fleece and the battle cry fleece makes you think of the texture as well. By associating the colours with common things that e realbody recognises interchangeable hor se and sheep, it allows the reader to hazard precisely what hes describing and it stand bys the poem appeal to a wider reference because constantlyybody knows what a horse or sheep looks interchangeable. Hopkins compares the sound of the stream to ‘flutes, which makes you think of a wacky tinkling sound and you can imagine the sound of the stream.\r\nBecause ‘flutes is at the beginning of the strong belief it suggests the stream is echoing the sound of a waterfall. Hopkins uses voice communication like ‘wiry, flitches (ragged brown tufts) which help create a sense of place because you can imagine the texture of the landscape. The beginning rhyme and repetition used in the profligate of descent ‘degged with dew, mottled with dew emphasises the appearance of the landscape. The haggle degged and dappled too describe the appearance of the land around the stream because they suggest the idea that the landscape is heavy, shiny and speckled with dew.\ r\nHopkins creates a sense of change by describing the streams travail from its ‘roaring down to its smooth flowing. He uses words which the reader immediately associates with movement. For example ‘roaring, which is a word normally associated with a lion, when combine with ‘rollrock highroad roaring down provides the image of the stream rolling and rushing over rocks because rollrock is an onomatopoeia- a word which mimics its sound. The rhythm and alliteration in this disputation as well contri hardlye to image the streams movement. In the second stanza, Hopkins has included words such as ‘turns, twindles and rounds and ounds. These clearly describe the streams movement and are all onomatopoeias so the words sound like their action. The assonance and repetition of rounds and rounds enforce the idea that the stream is going round and round.\r\nFinally, the second line of the third stanza ‘brook treads by means of shows the waters smooth movement. fair(a) more(prenominal) or less every two lines of Inversnaid ends in poetry (froth, broth) and there are usually four focussinges per line: This darksome burn, horseback brown The sound out rhyme scheme means you reach the climax in the final stanza of the oem meteoric because it makes the words flow easily and quickly. The final stanza is where Hopkins strongly conveys to the reader his strong beliefs about the environment. ‘What would the world be, once bereft//Of derisory and wilderness? ‘ is a line where Hopkins challenges us which is the pith of the interview. He is saying that if the world was robbed of these things, it would be nothing.\r\nThe repetition of ‘let them be left emphasises the thought from Hopkins that the wilderness should be conserved, in crashicular with ‘O at the beginning of the repeated phrase. The expire entence of the withstand stanza begins with ‘ wide exsert which shows Hopkins thinks the environment is very important and that places like Inversnaid should be left as they are forever. This opinion was reflected in a letter to his friend, Robert Bridges, where he convey his fears about ‘the decline of wild nature. The alliteration of ls and ws in this stanza adds to the rhythm and rapid address of it so that the last stanza is more than than say and in turn Hopkins views are more emphatic. The alliteration overly helps emphasise his views. eagle-eyed live the weeds and the wilderness yet.\r\nIn the first half of this sentence the monosyllables used mean the point ‘long live the weeds is succinct and so it is enforced. Unlike Inversnaid, Felix Randall is a poem about a person and his progression from a strong green person man to a weak gaga man and finally death. We view him through the eyes of a priest who has know and cared for him. Also unlike Inversnaid, this poem contains numerous ideas about Hopkins Christian faith and God and his duties as a priest, Hopk ins creates a sense of person by opening the poem with direct speech so it as if the priest is talking to some one and we are overhearing heir conversation, which past moves to a supposition and we see the priest reflecting on Felixs heart. The poem also opens with a rhetorical question which emphasises the point that it is as if we are overhearing a conversation.\r\nBy telling the reader Felix was a farrier, it immediately conjures up many images and shows that Felix was part of a world of ‘craftsmanship and strength, which is also shown by the use of technical row belonging to this world (like forge). He describes Felix as a young man as ‘ robust and hardy-handsome and the alliteration of these phrases helps o create strong images of a big, rugged and masculine man. Hopkins describes Felix through his illness ‘impatient he cursed at first, which helps the reader flummox an idea of his roughage. He also calls him peasant which suggests vulner talent and tha t he is the child of God. In the last stanza, Felix is described as ‘ respectable amidst peers when he was at his best which suggests he was a leader and popular at the work place. Felix Randall is not just about the man in the title but also about the priest who cared for him when he was cast.\r\nHopkins creates a sense of person with the riest by describing him at work and his duties as a priest like blessing the vile ‘anointed and all and providing holy communion ‘ winsome rest and ransom. We also see more of the priests character when Hopkins conveys what the poet feels about Felix and when he says ‘seeing the black endears them to us. This shows that the priest feels compassion for the parishioners that he tends to and that universe a priest is more than just a job for him- which could reflect the feelings Hopkins felt up for his parishioners and what he feels about Felix.\r\nIn the third stanza it says that the riest has comforted Felix but he has also been stirred by him ‘thy tears that touched my heart. ‘ Hopkins creates a sense of change by describing Felix first as he was young ‘big-boned and hardy-handsome to ‘pining pining. There is no punctuation amongst handsome and pining, which is enjambment, and the effect of this enjambment is that the words are underscore and so the change from Felix being big-boned to him pining is also emphasised. In the equivalent stanza, Felix is describes as becoming senile and loosing ability to moderateness, ‘ when reason rambled in it.\r\nHopkins describes the hange from Felix loosing his ability to reason to having a ‘heavenlier heart and so he had more piece of mind after being blessed and receiving holy communion. Its in the last stanza that Hopkins conveys a real sense of change when he says ‘how from thence forethought of, all they more boisterous //years, suggesting what a long way, and what a change it was from Felix being healthy, l oud, young, ready to how he was before he died, ‘ bleak four disorders- his body giving up mentally and physically. The poem conveys strongly to the reader Hopkins strong beliefs about his duties as priest by having ‘duty in the first line of the poem and in the priests conversation so its his natural thought and it shows that duty comes first.\r\nThis is also emphasised because there is a punctuate on the word duty. Hopkins feels his duties as a priest are to bless the sick when they are dying so they feel more at ease about dying. By doing this it makes him more worthy ‘us too it endears. ‘ He also feels his duties as a priest are to post ghostly comfort, help his parishioners to seek amnesty from God and to offer the promise of rising life by giving them ‘sweet reprieve and ransom.\r\nUnlike Inversnaid, Felix Randall is a sonnet and has a sprung rhythm. This is when the single stresses come one after the other with no unemphatic syllables or a single stress plus any amount of unstressed syllables. There are usually sestet stresses to a line in this poem whilst Inversnaid has four. Felix Randal, the farrier, O he is dead then? my duty all ended Whereas in Inversnaid Hopkins uses compound words that he has make himself, like twindles (turns and dwindles), he uses colloquial language-Lancashire dialect, ‘all road ever he offended, in Felix Randall, which gives a strong sense of spoken voice nd emphasises the point that it feels like we are overhearing a conversation between the priest and someone else.\r\nIt also makes the poem less stiff and more affectional because it is someones thoughts and feelings spoken in their own dialect. The use of colloquial language in this line is to convey a profound spiritual truth as it is saying ‘ may all his sins be forgiven. I privilege Felix Randall because I think Hopkins creates a such(prenominal) stronger sense of person than place and its a lot more interesting. I t hink the structure of the poem is better because it is more telling in conveying Hopkins ideas. By commencement with\r\nFelix damage from a serious illness, and then describing how the priest was able to help him and the benefits the priest gained from that and finally to comparing Felix Randall at his extremum to how he was at the end of his life makes it a more emotional poem than Inversnaid. The fact that the poem contains ideas of a persons suffering means that a lot more people can relate to it, than to a poem about a frugal landscape, because everyone has suffered or seen someone else suffer the set up of old age. The use of colloquial language also makes the poem more accessible. ‘Ah well, God rest him all road ever he offended! ‘\r\n'