“By a Grey-Eye’s Heed”
In “Harry Ploughman,” Gerard Manley Hopkins describes an agrarian laborer in nautical terms to illustrate how work itself becomes a propeller for life’s voyage. The dynamics of sound due to the sonnet’s rhythm, syntax, and structure imitate the atmosphere and movements of both farmer and ship. By ec...
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| Τύπος μέσου: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Άρθρο |
| Γλώσσα: | Αγγλικά |
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Brill
2018
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Religion and the arts
Έτος: 2018, Τόμος: 22, Τεύχος: 4, Σελίδες: 501-517 |
| Τυποποιημένες (ακολουθίες) λέξεων-κλειδιών: | B
Hopkins, Gerard Manley 1844-1889, Harry Ploughman
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| Άλλες λέξεις-κλειδιά: | B
Hopkins
agrarian labor
nautical
navigate
ship
plough
grace
vocation
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| Σύνοψη: | In “Harry Ploughman,” Gerard Manley Hopkins describes an agrarian laborer in nautical terms to illustrate how work itself becomes a propeller for life’s voyage. The dynamics of sound due to the sonnet’s rhythm, syntax, and structure imitate the atmosphere and movements of both farmer and ship. By echoing images from “The Wreck of the Deutschland,” Hopkins points to the crucial roles of conscience and grace for guiding action, but not only toward material results. More importantly, they direct the worker toward selfless integrity and conviction, toward greater fullness of being. Hopkins’s polysemous portrayal alludes to the expertise needed for navigating challenges on land, at sea, and in verse. Hopkins’s mastery, like that of all workers who proceed with intensity in response to divine promptings or “stress,” serves as a vehicle for conducting souls to their eternal harbor. The sonnet’s maritime associations, as well as the multivalence of its eye, breath, and child images resonate in Hopkins’s spiritual writings and thereby highlight the vocational aspect of human labor. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5292 |
| Περιλαμβάνει: | In: Religion and the arts
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685292-02204007 |