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Week 8 Discussion

WEEK 8 Discussion

Q For this week, please respond to TWO questions. Note: you are not responding to a fellow student this week. Make sure you follow the instructions listed in the syllabus for a thorough answer. In what way is color significant in “Pied Beauty”? How does color relate to Hopkins’s vision of the world and to God? What does the falcon in “The Windhover” mean to the speaker of the poem? “Pied Beauty” contains a number of compound words: “couple-colour” (line 2), “rose-moles” (line 3), “Fresh-frecoal” (line 4), “chestnut-falls” (line 4), and “fathers-forth” (line 10). What effect does this technique of hyphenation have on your reading of the poem? How do the hyphenated words relate to the poem as a whole?

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Color plays a significant role in “Pied Beauty” which is also evident from the name. Victorian poet, Gerard Manley Hopkins wanted to portray that quality of God which suggests variety. Pied means having two or more colors and this the poet has pointed out just to make sure that she is fascinated by the idea of variety that exists in God.