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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...

Hopkins is fangirling over the kestrel - extreme Romanticism minion = subordinate/darling dauphin = nobleman (title) Hopkins is observing the bird on a brilliant morning, where the bird is the lord of the morning dappled = spotted dawn-drawn = morning brings him in riding in the wind = hovering in gusty winds; it does not just fly - it rolls metaphor of humility and contro in your own terms not always the one who's highest that's in control fact that he is witness to this bird lets him explore its inscape and the instress - it is an individual experience compared to a horse (reins) the windhover rules the sky with just two foldable wings lives in the present = unaffected, gliding smoothly in the roughest, harshest winds "My heart in hiding/Strirred for a bird" = gave up poetry, didn't write for years and then a bird comes along and makes him sit up and take notice again achieve, mastery = master of himself, without pretense or self-conscio...

Transition from Early to Late Victorian Beginning of modernism, ecological discourse spoke about environment poems published posthumously, in 20th century, but it just so happened that the questions he raised in his poems were relevant then they questioned the false sense of progress, man's insensitive attitude towards Nature - how man is not in tune with Nature and has smudged the Earth {God's Granger - world charged with the electric energy of God} INSCAPE - God's utterance of himself outside himself in this world - totality of all characteristics, unique to all creatures, uniquely and that differentiates it from the world INSTRESS - force of being that holds inscape together - the impulse of recognition - because one impulse of being is different from the other how everything - people, experiences, places, things - affects us perhaps most importantly, "the ice cream is also doing things to you" Inscape and Instress " Hopkins’s mimetic langua...