As Kingfishers Catch Fire (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Gerard Manley Hopkins
- First Published: 1918
- Type of Work: Sonnet
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry, Sonnet
The Poem
“As Kingfishers Catch Fire” conveys Gerard Manley Hopkins’s sacramental vision that each creature and even each object in the world constantly announces its individuality, and that in so doing, in its own active and perceptible way it proclaims God’s grace. As a young man preparing for a career in art, Hopkins had been a close and penetrating observer of his surroundings. After his conversion to Roman Catholicism, this interest in the nature of things took the more spiritual cast that is reflected in this poem.
The poem is a Petrarchan sonnet in which...
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