That Nature Is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Gerard Manley Hopkins
- First Published: 1918
- Type of Work: Sonnet
- Genres: Poetry, Sonnet
- Subjects: Philosophy or philosophers, Immortality, Nature, Human race, Death or dying, Jesus Christ, Fire, Mortality, Greece or Greek people, Resurrection, Sun, Clouds, Summer, Rain, Thunderstorms
The Poem
“That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the comfort of the Resurrection” is a sonnet in accentual hexameter with three codas of two and a half lines plus one final half-line. The cumbersome title names the first and last of the three topics the sonnet treats; the grammatical structure of the title—a noun clause plus a prepositional phrase—suggests the lack of parallelism of the two topics named. The clause “That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire” refers to a vision of nature through the eyes of the fifth century b.c.e. Greek cosmological philosopher...
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