Carrion Comfort (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
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The Poem
Gerard Manley Hopkins’s sonnet “Carrion Comfort” displays brilliantly the complex prosody he developed for himself from many poetic sources, including Old English, Welsh, Italian, and various religious traditions. Despite its initial impression of difficulty, with a careful reading both the meaning and the form become clear. This poem must be read aloud, however, if the reader wishes to understand Hopkins’s profoundly moving struggle with despair and with God.
“Carrion Comfort” is a variation on the Petrarchan or Italian sonnet form; this poem was...
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