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betsey
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Doty Jan 17, 2019 10:04:16 GMT -5 via mobile

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Post by betsey on Jan 17, 2019 10:04:16 GMT -5

This is one of my favorite poems. One can admire the craft (defines controlling metaphor), alliteration, etc. I focus on the luminesce, radiance, rainbow-hues of Hopkins. Also the paradoxes: singularity, all for all. No verb is singular or everyone is. To overlay Doty’s loss makes it so much more poignant, selflessness, like mortality, as the price of gleaming.

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Doty Jan 17, 2019 12:57:26 GMT -5

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Post by Gerry on Jan 17, 2019 12:57:26 GMT -5

Betsey, I think Doty shows us the power of attention, of paying attention and giving attention to both our central images and the language we use to bring them to the reaer, to look more deeply as to why we're intrigued by them, and how when doing so we find truths for the poem.

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