Pied Beauty
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Pied Beauty is a celebrated curtal sonnet by Gerard Manley Hopkins that praises the variegated beauty of nature and God’s creation.
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| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Pied Beauty canonical | 1 |
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
curtal sonnet
ⓘ
poem ⓘ |
| addressee | God NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| author | Gerard Manley Hopkins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| authorNationality | British ⓘ |
| centralIdea | praise for the diversity and changefulness of the world ⓘ |
| closingLine | Praise him. ⓘ |
| compositionPeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| contrast | changeable creation vs unchanging God ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1918 ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstPublisher | Robert Bridges NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| form | curtal sonnet ⓘ |
| genre |
lyric poetry
ⓘ
religious poetry ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
aesthetics
ⓘ
nature ⓘ theology ⓘ |
| imagery |
all trades and gear and tackle and trim
ⓘ
brinded cows ⓘ dappled things ⓘ landscape plotted and pieced ⓘ skies of couple-colour ⓘ stippled trout ⓘ |
| includedIn | anthologies of Victorian poetry ⓘ |
| influence | modern religious poetry ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryDevice |
alliteration
ⓘ
compression ⓘ internal rhyme ⓘ paradox ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Victorian poetry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| meter | sprung rhythm ⓘ |
| openingLine | Glory be to God for dappled things – ⓘ |
| posthumousPublication | true ⓘ |
| publicationStatusDuringAuthorLife | unpublished ⓘ |
| religiousContext |
Catholicism
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jesuit spirituality ⓘ |
| rhymeScheme | irregular ⓘ |
| structure | octave-like section followed by sestet-like section ⓘ |
| studiedIn | English literature courses ⓘ |
| theme |
beauty of nature
ⓘ
inscape of created things ⓘ praise of God ⓘ religious devotion ⓘ variety in creation ⓘ |
| tone |
joyful
ⓘ
reverent ⓘ |
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