To Christ Our Lord
I caught this morning mornings minion, king-
      dom of daylights dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding
      Of the rolling direct underneath him steady air, and striding
High there, how he rung upon the govern in of a wimpling wing
In his ecstasy! then off, off ahead on swing,
      As a skates heel sweeps smooth on a bow-bend: the hurl and gliding
      Rebuffed the big wind. My heart in hiding
excited for a bird, the achieve of, the mastery of the thing.
Brute beauty and valiancy and act, oh, air, pride, plume, here
      Buckle! AND the fire that breaks from thee then, a billion
Times told lovelier, more dangerous, O my chevalier!Â
      No wonder of it: shéer plód makes twist down sillion
Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear,
Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion
The windhover is a kind of falcon that hovers against the wind, that s wing in circles, swoops and dives through the air. He has dedicated this to Christ the Lord, almost probably because he became a jesuit.
Stanza 1:
The poet describes how he adage (or caught) one of these birds in the midst of its hovering.
The bird strikes the poet as the dear(p) (minion) of the morning, the crown prince (dauphin) of the kingdom of daylight, drawn by the dappled colours of dawn. He uses the metaphors of minion (underling) and dauphin (novice-in-waiting) to express his view that beautiful and powerful as the kestrel is, it still belongs to creation and to God. So Hopkins is thanking God for manduction the majesty of creation with him, and praising him for his skill in figure it.
It rides the air as if it were on horseback, moving with steady fudge like a rider whose hold on the rein is sure and firm. In the poets imagination, the windhover sits high and proud, tightly reined in, wings quivering and tense. Its motion is controlled and suspended in an ecstatic morsel of concentrated energy. Then, in the next moment, the bird...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com
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