Binsey Poplars (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Gerard Manley Hopkins
- First Published: 1918
- Type of Work: Meditation
- Genres: Poetry, Meditation
The Poem
Gerard Manley Hopkins’s “Binsey Poplars” contains two irregular stanzas of eight and sixteen lines which mourn the loss of a stand of poplars to the woodsman’s axe. These remembered trees, which are addressed in the first line, grew along the bank of the Thames River as it meandered from Oxford to the small village of Binsey, a charming walk of two miles that Hopkins often followed as a student at Balliol College, Oxford. The Thames, sometimes called the Isis in the Oxford area, is very narrow in the Binsey area; hence Hopkins recalls the slow-moving water and...
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