...worst, there is none. But Hopkins rejects, rather than indulges in, the negative emotion of despair: Not, I'll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast...these last strands of man In me or, most weary, cry I can no more. (Carrion Comfort) Hopkins rejects an ultimate despair, because he continues to believe...

...day. "Sorry." "Oh," she said. I think it crushed her. Here, from my namesake, is a verse, a sonnet: "Not, I'll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast...these last strands of man In me or, most weary, cry, I can no more. I can; Can something, hope, wish day come, not choose to be. But ah, but O thou terrible,...

...just compare the first line and the last line, before you read the whole text. Text: Poem (ii) (ii) Not, I'll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast...can; Can something, hope, wish day come, not choose to be. 5 But ah, but O thou terrible, why wouldst thou rude on me Thy wring-world right foot rock?...

...priest 1 Ten or twelve, only ten or twelve Strokes of havoc únselve. 'llinsey Poplars' (written 1X79) 2 Not, I'll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast...these last strands of man In me or, most weary, cry Í can no more. I can; Can something, hope, wish day come, not choose not to be. 'Carrion Comfort'...

...expressed is more profound and the degree of equilibrium attained in the closing lines more stable: 17 Not, I'll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast...something, hope, wish day come, not choose not to be. But ah, but O thou terrible, why wouldst thou rude on me Thy wring-earth right foot rock? lay a lionlimb...

...Comfort, expresses Hopkins' state as the Dublin years trudged on and the end of his life approached: NOT, I'll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast...something, hope, wish day come, not choose not to be. But ah, but O thou terrible, why wouldst thou rude on me Thy wring-world right foot rock? lay a lionlimb...

...with him in the gloom, Hoping it might be so. Thomas Hardy, The Oxen (1915) 16 Cry / can no more. 1 can: Can something, hope, wish day come, not choose not to be. Gerard Manley Hopkins, Carrion Comfort (1889) 17 Because 1 do not hope to turn again Because I do not...

...that macabre image that he begins what Bridges believed to be the second of the two "bloody" sonnets. Not, I'll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast...these last strands of man In me or, most weary, cry I can no more. I can; Can something, hope, wish day come, not choose not to be. But ah, but O thou...

...rather than indulges in, the negative emotion of despait: Not, I'll not, cartion comfort, Despait, not feast on thee. Not untwist - slack they may be - these last strands of man In me or, most weary, cty I can no more, (Cartion Comfort) Hopkins rejects an ultimare despait, because he continues to believe...

...emerges as illustration and earnest of that hope, form and function fusing into an ecstasy of language: Not, I'll not carrion comfort, Despair, not feast...these last strands of man In me or, most weary, cry I can no more. I can. . . . Harper's discourse is, of course, quite different: it is oral, instructive,...