2. Please read "Pied Beauty," page 695, and do a "true-false quiz, just like last night.
A. T or F: the exact definition of some of the words of this poem matter.
B. T or F: this is a happy poem.
C. T or F: this poem has an elaborate rhyme scheme.
D. T or F: alliteration contributes to our understanding of the tone (implied attitude) of the poem.
E. T or F: some of the poem's rhythms are syncopated.
Pied Beauty by Hopkins
ReplyDeleteA: true
The exact definition of many words in this poem have importance. If I had not found the definition of such words like "Pied, dappled, brinded, and stipple", I would have not made the connection between each. These words provide a theme in the poem, they describe the apparent beauty of spotted things in nature. Like "skies of couple color", "rose moles", and "plotted" landscapes. The narrator praises Gods beautiful work for such small nuances in life.
Katie Burch
ReplyDeleteStatement B is true because this whole poem gives a feeling of happiness. Phrases like "With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;" and "Praise him." show that the poet is praising God. The way the poet also uses imagery gives a very happy tone to the overall meaning of the poem.
Statement B is true because the poem seems to really emphasize how beautiful certain aspects of life are. When he writes "Glory be they God for dappled things-" this bascally shows how the speaker is thanking God for all that we have and enjoy.
ReplyDeleteStatement (a) is true. After the poet says about ‘dappled things’ at first line, he lists the words, which define the word ‘dapple things’; ‘brinded cow’, ‘stipple’, ‘all things counter, original, spare, strange’, and ‘fickle, freckled.’ Since the poet describes word ‘dappled’ in various ways, we can figure out what the word ‘dappled’ means without confusing. The word ‘dappled’ means not only pied, but also means diversity, wideness of the world.
ReplyDeleteStatement (B) is certainly true. The happiness of this poem is extremely apparent by the first line, "Glory be to God for dappled things." This poem comments on the georgeous aspects of life by using many different colors. With further observation of the poem, almost every line is arguably "happy." The vivid imagery used also contributes to the brighter aspects of the poem. The last line, "Praise him" shows the poet in a rejoicing manner, an aspect that certainly is happy.
ReplyDeleteStatement B is true. This is because of the idea of prasing god and 'Glory be to God for dappled things'. Clearly whoever is reading this can sense the idea that this is a happy poem, just because of that own statement. Even more so the way everything is described also seems happy 'With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change; Prasie him' Besides the ending statement giving praise and positive thoughts to someone it is also showing that any of these ideas from sweet to sour are all good and happy things.
ReplyDeleteA: False. I cannot agree that the exact definitions of some of the words in the poem matter. I say this because take two dictionaries, and you will find discrepancies between the two. I feel as if the ambiguity of the words in the poem leave open to interpretation it's meaning. Which, is what poetry is more or less about - the reader takes from it what they want. This line, "For skies of couple-color as a brinded cow;", is one in particular that I find it is HELPFUL to not know the exact definition of the word, "brinded". Even in the explanation at the bottom of this poem, we are told the word "brinded" means spots or stripes. (Which mind you are two entirely different things.) However, we are also told that the skies are "couple-color", which I took to mean as vibrant with many colors. I don't necessarily thing that one would pay attention to pattern over color, when discussing imagery. Many of the definitions, in fact, at the bottom of the page in this book define colors. What is interesting to me as that somehow all of these colors are associated with a pattern. Knowing the EXACT definition of these words is somewhat distracting from visualizing what I want when I read it. In short, I mean to say that knowing the exact definition of the words in this poem is unnecessary and that the reader should determine for themselves what the word "stipple" means.
ReplyDeleteStatement B is true because the author is celebrating all the strange beauty that life has to offer. "He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change; Praise him." The author is saying that God has created so many unique things that we must praise him for the beauty of diversity.
ReplyDeleteStatement D is true because there is alliteration in every line, which ads a fun, flirtatious aspect to it. In lines like, "Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches' wings;" you can't help but notice all the "f's" and think about what they mean. The fact that alliteration was used consistently throughout the poem gives it that light hearted feel, which gives the tone of the poem away.
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C) True. The rhyme scheme is ABCABCDBCDC. At the beginning the rhyme scheme is very elaborate and clear. But towards the end, it changes; but still works out in the end.
ReplyDeleteStament B is true. The tone of whole poem is bright and happy. The poem is praising God. It said, "He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change;praise him." The author is describing the beauty of the world that God created for us.
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ReplyDeleteStatement C is true. I came up with the same rhyming pattern that Katherine did: masculine rhyme in an ABCABCDBCBC pattern.
ReplyDeleteThe rhyme starts off predictable, but as the poem progresses and picks up the pace the rhyme becomes freer and more elaborate.
I believe that statement B is somewhat true. Yes, it does talk about god and how he created everything. But I have two interpretations of “Landscape plotted and pieced-fold, fallow, and plow" one is happy and the other is not. My first interpretation from this sentence is that god is creating new lands. This is a happy statement. Before this line I read about animals that he had created. My second interpretation is that this is about humans. That humans had ruined and distorted the lands that god had made. They had used the lands for themselves. That is why I believe this poem is somewhat happy. It is about the good and bad.
ReplyDeleteStatement E is true. Manley Hopkins uses sprung rhythm in this poem. There is no constant meter so the rhythm is constantly started and stopping. The author writes the line: "For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;", then he goes to the next line which is full of accented first syllables making the line hard to read because it's an unusual rhythm and very unlike the previous line: "Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches' wings;".
ReplyDeleteStatement D is true, because I dont think that we would get such a light air from the poem without the 8th and 9th lines, and the words "fickle, freckled" and "swift, slow, sweet, sour, adazzle, dim"
ReplyDeleteStatement B is false. Happiness is directly shown from the first line of the poem: "Glory be to God for dappled things." The tone of the poem is overall happy because the poet uses imagery and words that show happiness. Also, the last line "Praise him" show that the poet is praising god and he describes about how beautiful life is.
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