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Originally Posted by Usually Lurkin
bowbend might be a curve made by a skater (the imagery fits, anyway - bird flying a curve, skater cutting a curve)
1st and last two lines I'd say as:
This morning I saw the crown prince of morning, the prince of the kingdom of daylight (a metaphor for Christ).
Though I'm not sure that the first line is supposed to be repeated as the last.
This [real] last line: "No wonder of it: sheer plod makes plough down sillion
Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear,
Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermillion. "
would in plain English be:
Running a plow over dirt will turn up shiny things, and dim embers will break open, revealing bright lights.
Here's a nice line by line reading:
http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/...hopkins10.html
and a discussion:
http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/35.html |
Wow, thanks a lot, this is really helping me right now!
Thanks to you, mary, as well, although I don't thing this will suit the other poems that I have so far. But thanks, anyways.
Hey, what about making this thread a poem thread in general? But please mark the poems that are not suited for my little research...