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transcendentalism dramatic start What is grass child is innocent, ignorant, unaware, excited Speaker, an adult, grown-up, "wise" one, also unaware, unable to answer - "I do not know what it is any more than he" I am like grass Reasons why child approached him:  symbols - handkerchief of the lord disposition, person woven out of hopeful dreams grass is a representation of his own hopes designedly (intentionally) dropped (to convey a message) Divine spirit handkerchief is a reminder of possession - bears owner's name, just as the grass bears the name of God Grass represents divinity, reminds us of divine presence grass is a baby/child/product of a habitat Universal language same for all - broad zones (lawns)(broad-minded), narrow zones (pathways)(narrow-minded), black, white, Indian, rich, poor - universal, hieroglyphic - grass is part of the universal language of god Only in America: Kanucks are French Canadians Tuckahoe is a p...

Gerard Manley Hopkins Glory be to God for dappled things - For skies of couple-color 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 all trades, 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. Er, wha-haaaat?? ehhehehhe Praises God beauty that involves a multiplicity of color  beauty by association poet may have a minor obsession with spotted things:  'Glory be to God for dappled things'  'skies of coupled colors' (blue and white, red and yellow)  spotted (brinded) cows  moles on trout  finches' wings when a chestnut falls, the color inside is golden and shines through landscape - textured, plotted, pieced, fold, fallow, plo...