Choose 2 or 3 poems and explore how Hopkins’ use of language and the structure of the poems

* Creates a finger of orchestrate and/ or a sensation of mortal* Conveys what the poet feels slightly the place/ person* Creates a sentience of change/loss* Conveys stiffly to the lecturer Hopkins affectionate beliefs about matinee idol/ his duties as a priest/ the human check into/ the environment/ the natural manhood.I am going to look at the verses Inversnaid and Felix Rand both and comp be the language and structure use in each poem. I chose these poems because Hopkins conveys a real sense of place in Inversnaid and a pie-eyed sense of person in Felix Randall and he describes the progression of each. They therefore set aside a good comparison. Inversnaid is about a Highland be adrift and its tour is described in four stanzas. The first stanza describes the stream rushing start a mountainside when it reaches a dark pool in the fleck stanza. The third stanza shows the stream at a entle pace until it reaches home and in the final stanza, Hopkins conveys his own stems on nature and the landscape.The emphasis in this poem is on the get hold of details of the stream and its journey rather than Gods master presence which is what makes Inversnaid an unusual poem for Hopkins because in his other poems there is normally some to reference to God and his Christian beliefs as a priest. Hopkins creates a sense of place by appealing to the senses of the reader- sight, vocalise and touch. He creates an exact visual image of the stream and its andscape by describing the exact colours, horseback brown, dress of his foam. The plunk of his foam makes you speculate of a sheeps white fleece and the word fleece makes you presuppose of the texture as well. By associating the colours with common things that constantlyybody recognises wish horse and sheep, it allows the reader to imagine exactly what hes describing and it helps the poem appeal to a wider audience because everybody knows what a horse or sheep looks like. Hopkins compargons the sound of the stream to flutes, which makes you think of a soft tinkling sound and you can imagine the sound of the stream.Because flutes is at the beginning of the sentence it suggests the stream is echoing the sound of a waterfall. Hopkins uses rowing like wiry, flitches (ragged brown tufts) which help create a sense of place because you can imagine the texture of the landscape. The alliteration and repetition used in the spot degged with dew, dappled with dew emphasises the appearance of the landscape. The words degged and dappled excessively describe the appearance of the land around the stream because they suggest the idea that the landscape is heavy, shiny and speckled with dew.Hopkins creates a sense of change by describing the streams movement from its roaring down to its refine flowing. He uses words which the reader straight associates with movement. For example roaring, which is a word normally associated with a lion, when combined with rollrock passage roaring down provides the image of the stream rolling and rushing over rocks because rollrock is an onomatopoeia- a word which mimics its sound. The rhythm and alliteration in this line as well set in to imaging the streams movement. In the second stanza, Hopkins has included words such as turns, twindles and rounds and ounds. These clearly describe the streams movement and argon all onomatopoeias so the words sound like their action. The assonance and repetition of rounds and rounds enforce the idea that the stream is going round and round.Finally, the second line of the third stanza brook treads through shows the waters smooth movement. Almost every two lines of Inversnaid ends in rhyme (froth, broth) and there are usually four stresses per line This darksome burn, horseback brown The pronounced rhyme scheme sloppeds you reach the climax in the final stanza of the oem rapid because it makes the words flow easily and quickly. The final stanza is where Hopkins strongly conveys to the reader his str ong beliefs about the environment. What would the world be, once bereft//Of wet and wilderness? is a line where Hopkins challenges us which is the deed of the suspicion. He is adage that if the world was robbed of these things, it would be nothing.The repetition of let them be left emphasises the thought from Hopkins that the wilderness should be conserved, oddly with O at the beginning of the repeated phrase. The last entence of the last stanza begins with long live which shows Hopkins thinks the environment is very important and that places like Inversnaid should be left as they are forever. This opinion was reflected in a letter to his friend, Robert Bridges, where he expressed his fears about the decline of wild nature. The alliteration of ls and ws in this stanza adds to the rhythm and rapid preservation of it so that the last stanza is more than pronounced and in turn Hopkins views are more emphatic. The alliteration also helps emphasise his views. Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.In the first half of this sentence the monosyllables used mean the establish long live the weeds is succinct and so it is enforced. Unlike Inversnaid, Felix Randall is a poem about a person and his progression from a strong young man to a weak old man and eventually death. We view him through the eyes of a priest who has known and cared for him. withal unlike Inversnaid, this poem contains many ideas about Hopkins Christian faith and God and his duties as a priest, Hopkins creates a sense of person by opening night the poem with direct speech so it as if the priest is public lecture to somebody and we are overhearing heir conversation, which then moves to a meditation and we claver the priest reflecting on Felixs life. The poem also opens with a rhetorical question which emphasises the point that it is as if we are overhearing a conversation.By telling the reader Felix was a farrier, it immediately conjures up many images and shows that Felix was part of a world of craftsmanship and strength, which is also shown by the use of technical language be to this world (like forge). He describes Felix as a young man as big-boned and hardy-handsome and the alliteration of these phrases helps o create strong images of a big, humbled and masculine man. Hopkins describes Felix through his illness impatient he cursed at first, which helps the reader get an idea of his character. He also calls him child which suggests pic and that he is the child of God. In the last stanza, Felix is described as powerful amidst peers when he was at his best which suggests he was a leader and frequent at the work place. Felix Randall is not just about the man in the title but also about the priest who cared for him when he was sick.Hopkins creates a sense of person with the riest by describing him at work and his duties as a priest like blessing the sick anointed and all and providing holy communion pleasant reprieve and ransom. We also see more of the pr iests character when Hopkins conveys what the poet feels about Felix and when he says seeing the sick endears them to us. This shows that the priest feels compassion for the parishioners that he tends to and that organism a priest is more than just a job for him- which could reflect the feelings Hopkins felt for his parishioners and what he feels about Felix.In the third stanza it says that the riest has comforted Felix but he has also been touched by him thy tears that touched my heart. Hopkins creates a sense of change by describing Felix first as he was young big-boned and hardy-handsome to pining pining. There is no punctuation between handsome and pining, which is enjambment, and the effect of this enjambment is that the words are emphasize and so the change from Felix beingness big-boned to him pining is also emphasised. In the same stanza, Felix is describes as proper senile and loosing ability to reason, when reason rambled in it.Hopkins describes the hange from Felix loosing his ability to reason to having a heavenlier heart and so he had more piece of mind after being blessed and receiving holy communion. Its in the last stanza that Hopkins conveys a real sense of change when he says how from then forethought of, all they more jolting //years, suggesting what a long way, and what a change it was from Felix being healthy, loud, young, energetic to how he was before he died, fatal four disorders- his body great(p) up mentally and physically. The poem conveys strongly to the reader Hopkins strong beliefs about his duties as priest by having duty in the first line of the poem and in the priests conversation so its his natural thought and it shows that duty comes first.This is also emphasised because there is a stress on the word duty. Hopkins feels his duties as a priest are to bless the sick when they are dying so they feel more at ease about dying. By doing this it makes him more worthy us too it endears. He also feels his duties as a priest a re to offer spiritual comfort, help his parishioners to seek pity from God and to offer the promise of new life by giving them sweet reprieve and ransom.Unlike Inversnaid, Felix Randall is a sonnet and has a sprung rhythm. This is when the unity stresses come one after the other with no unstressed syllables or a single stress plus any amount of unstressed syllables. There are usually six stresses to a line in this poem whilst Inversnaid has four. Felix Randal, the farrier, O he is dead then? my duty all ended Whereas in Inversnaid Hopkins uses compound words that he has made himself, like twindles (turns and dwindles), he uses colloquial language-Lancashire dialect, all road ever he offended, in Felix Randall, which gives a strong sense of talk voice nd emphasises the point that it feels like we are overhearing a conversation between the priest and someone else.It also makes the poem less stiff and more emotive because it is someones thoughts and feelings spoken in their own dialec t. The use of colloquial language in this line is to convey a profound spiritual truth as it is saying may all his sins be forgiven. I prefer Felix Randall because I think Hopkins creates a much stronger sense of person than place and its much more interesting. I think the structure of the poem is better because it is more strong in conveying Hopkins ideas. By starting withFelix hurt from a good illness, and then describing how the priest was able to help him and the benefits the priest gained from that and finally to examine Felix Randall at his prime to how he was at the end of his life makes it a more emotional poem than Inversnaid. The fact that the poem contains ideas of a persons suffering means that a lot more people can fix to it, than to a poem about a Scottish landscape, because everyone has suffered or seen someone else suffer the effects of old age. The use of colloquial language also makes the poem more accessible. Ah well, God rest him all road ever he offended