Dragonflies and Kingfishers: Glance at my thesis

Friday, December 17, 2010

AnonymousDecember 18, 2010 at 3:04 AM
This is really neat! I like how you have Eagleton in there - did you use him a lot?
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Bobbi MartensDecember 19, 2010 at 5:15 PM
Hi anonymous... wish you signed your name. Yes actually, Eagleton was a critic I was interacting with.
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As Kingfishers Catch Fire

by Gerard Manley Hopkins

As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame;

As tumbled over rim in roundy wells

Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell's

Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name;

Each mortal thing does one thing and the same:

Deals out that being indoors each one dwells;

Selves - goes itself; myself it speaks and spells,

Crying What I do is me: for that I came.

I say more: the just man justices;

Keeps grace: that keeps all his goings graces;

Acts in God's eye what in God's eye he is -

Christ - for Christ plays in ten thousand places,

Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his

To the father through the features of men's faces.