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=Gerard Manley Hopkins=



Born July 28th 1844 Died June 8th 1889 at age 44 in Dublin He converted to Roman Catholicism in July of 1866 after giving up poetry for lent and making a tremendous bonfire of his poetry and did not write poetry again for almost seven years. in 1870 he became a Jesuit priest and took his vows

A reading from his poem- //Pied Beauty//:
media type="file" key="Pied Beauty Pelster.mp3" width="240" height="20" > Glory be to God for dappled things— > For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; > For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; > Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings; > Landscape plotted and pieced—fold, fallow, and plough; > And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim. > All things counter, original, spare, strange; > Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?) > With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim; > He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change: Praise Him.

Discussion Questions: 1: What is this poem praising? 2: What is Hopkins saying God is to be praised for creating?