BeautyÐhow Hopkins pied it  

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Ross, Haj

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Sciences (Full Text) vol. 21 no. 3 (1999), page 237-250.
Topik: Person; Poetry; Self concept
Fulltext: 21_03_Ross.pdf (251.89KB)

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I propose to look as closely as possible at Gerard Manley Hopkins' brilliant and famous poem, `Pied Beauty.' Hopkins was a Jesuit priest; his life and art were centered in a mystic's vision. The mystic sees in all things the immanence of the Divine. In a sense, all things are thus equal; but nonetheless, Hopkins superimposes upon all things an asymmetric cline, which orders them from low to high, from far away from us to near, perhaps as a metaphor for the inner journey of self-puri®cation that each human being is o?ered, to come personally to experience their own Divinity within. Let us agree to call this sequence the cline of person, and to say that the cline goes not only from third to ®rst person, but from less ®rst to ®rster (in a way which I take to be in accord with the spirit, though not the letter, of Peirce's notion of ®rstness). This is the cline that points us towards Self.

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