Explore the Ways in Which Joy and Delight Are Conveyed in the Poem “Pied Beauty” by Gerald Manley Hopkins?

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The poet has conveyed joy and delight through the beauty of nature, god, contrast, structure and literary devices. The poem is a prayer to God thanking him for the beauty of nature. It has shown to be a prayer since it start with “Glory be to God” and ends with “Praise him”. The rhyme scheme is ABCABC DBEDE. The starting six lines shows an identical rhyme scheme which shows room for everyone in God's kingdom since there are three different rhymes. The last five lines shows beauty through the mixing of the different rhyme schemes thereby creating joy and delight by seeing the image of different people all over the world mixing. The structure shows people from all over the world as every line is varied in the first six lines. In the last five lines it shows joy and delight which one experiences when a person's emotions is unable to be controlled. The alliterations create a song line tone to the poem such as “couple-colour”, “fresh-firecoal” and “fickle,freckled”. This tune creates a sense of happiness and joy that emerges when listening to a song. The similes and metaphors compare the different aspects of nature to life and the beauty of life. A “brinded cow” shows uncertainty and thinking and the joy of solving a problem. The “rose-moles” show the hidden beauty of life in every problem as the “mole” show problems and the “rose” shows beauty. Getting lost from your family and friends seems like a problem but actually has a hidden beauty since it teaches independence. The “fresh-firecoal” and “chestnut-falls” show birth and the beauty and joy that people experience with young children as they grow. The young children show the beauty of life and thereby joy and delight. The poet has used the spring rhythm which imitates the natural speech. The first syllable is stressed and then a variable amount of unstressed syllables which makes the poem sound genuine and

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