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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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publicationStatusDuringAuthorLife unpublished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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Gerard Manley Hopkins notableWork Pied Beauty