Carrion Comfort

(Carrion Comfort) by Gerald Manley Hopkins Summary The poem opens with a rejection of Despair, that carrion comfort. To feast on hopelessness, Hopkins avers, would be like eating something dead and vile. Nor will the poet pass his break strands of humanity by giving up hope, though he is close to hopelessness and the strands are already slack. He makes the purposeless but determined assertion I can, and and then goes on to explore what that assertion might mean, what basic exertion or spiritual gesture might serve to undermine despair: doing something that expresses hope, even if it is as minimal as deficiency for daybreak or as negative as deciding non to kill himself. Having skirted the pit of despair, the poet questions god about the suffering that has raddled him so close to hopelessness. He asks why graven image would, so rockyly, with his powerful right foot, rock his world and send him writhing. why would God swipe at him with the dull and indiscriminate well-grounded time of a lionlimb? Why, then, maliciously look at him lying in that respect with bruised bones and further torment him with gales of tempest, bit he cowers, heaped there, scatty to escape but exhausted and with nowhere to run? and so the poet attempts an answer.

The tempest was symboliseually a harvest-home wind, shucking the chaff from the drinking straw to expose the kernels of goodness hidden within. In patient word meaning of divine vengeance, the poet has kissed the rod of Gods punishmentor rather, he corrects himself, he has kissed the hand that held that rod. Since then he has suffere d churn and coil, yet the act of acceptance! has also brought a revitalization of optimism, mounting step by step to a cheer. But this word prompts another(prenominal) round of questioning ( cheerfulness whom though?); now that he knows that Gods rough treatment of him was for his own good, should he now applaud God for having treated him so? Or does he congratulate himself for having struggled, for having met God directly? Or some(prenominal)? The speaker, however far he...If you want to nail a full(a) essay, order it on our website: OrderCustomPaper.com

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