{"id":221,"date":"2008-11-14T14:37:35","date_gmt":"2008-11-14T14:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/?p=221"},"modified":"2022-01-18T09:59:31","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T09:59:31","slug":"poem-pied-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/poem-pied-beauty\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem:  Pied Beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/2008\/11\/poem-times-go-by-turns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Times go by Turns<\/em><\/a> by Robert Southwell last week, this week a poet greatly influenced by Southwell, and a fellow-Jesuit, Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889).&nbsp; One of Southwell&#8217;s syntactic innovations was repetition:&nbsp; writing several nouns or phrases one after another, in order to add emphasis.&nbsp; Hopkins does the same in <em>Pied Beauty, <\/em>another poem for this northern autumn season.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nGlory be to God for dappled things\u2014<br \/>\nFor skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;<br \/>\nFor rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;<br \/>\nFresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches&#8217; wings;<br \/>\nLandscape plotted and pieced\u2014fold, fallow, and plough;<br \/>\nAnd \u00e1ll trades, their gear and tackle and trim.<br \/>\nAll things counter, original, sp\u00e1re, strange;<br \/>\nWhatever is fickle, freckl\u00e8d (who knows how?)<br \/>\nWith sw\u00edft, sl\u00f3w; sweet, s\u00f3ur; ad\u00e1zzle, d\u00edm;<br \/>\nHe fathers-forth whose beauty is p\u00e1st change:<br \/>\nPr\u00e1ise h\u00edm.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe photo is by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techno-primitive.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rick Landry<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following&nbsp;Times go by Turns by Robert Southwell last week, this week a poet greatly influenced by Southwell, and a fellow-Jesuit, Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889).&nbsp; One of Southwell&#8217;s syntactic innovations was repetition:&nbsp; writing several nouns or phrases one after another, in order to add emphasis.&nbsp; Hopkins does the same in Pied Beauty, another poem for this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","p1","y2008","m11","d14","h14"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10407,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions\/10407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}