There is a moment in Gerard Manley Hopkins where spring stops being a season and becomes an argument:
"Nothing is so beautiful as Spring —
When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush"
That second line does something extraordinary. The alliteration isn't decorative — it's mimetic. You can feel the growth pushing through the syllables, the sheer insistence of green things.
Hopkins saw the world as charged with grandeur. On days like this, when March finally remembers what it's supposed to be doing, one is inclined to agree with him.
#poetry #nostr #Hopkins
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