Inversnaid
Inversnaid is a very vivid poem. Hopkins involves sounds, descriptions and rhythms to portray the course of a Scottish river. The first verse is quite fast, like a stream, and the sounds are 'r's, 'c's and Ts. For example: 'The rollrock highroad roaring down' - this depicts the tumbling of the stream over its rocky bed.Another example is: 'In coop and in comb, the fieece of his foam'. The river is brown - ' horseback brown' shows an aspect of movement (in the horse) as well as colour, it also has 'fawn-froth'.The next verse is slower and more sinister. It is pitch
'In Spring the first line shows how Hopkins is using long sounds to portray hlkliiicss i. black or 'rounds and rounds despair to drowning'. The third verse has Scottish sounding words such as 'braes', 'burns' and 'flitches', will tell us of its position. It is noticeable that he finds himity in weeds like in Inversnaid. 'After-comers' will not be able to see the beauty that has been. Their removal is described with words usually used for torture 'ii'h as 'hack' and 'rack' and his message is that 'where we mean to mend her we end her'. 'Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet. The Binsley Poplars Hopkins regarded as his own were felled - the use of that wnrd, a monosyllable that is repeated, emphasizes the finality of the act.
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