Sunday, October 25, 2009

Repeat that, Repeat by G.M. Hopkins


REPEAT that, repeat,
Cuckoo, bird, and open ear wells, heart-springs, delightfully sweet,
With a ballad, with a ballad, a rebound
Off trundled timber and scoops of the hillside ground, hollow hollow hollow ground:
The whole landscape flushes on a sudden at a sound.

This concise description of an outdoor scene seems pretty generic amongst poets. It must be required of every poet to write something like this.

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