English 2307E Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Stoicism, Iceberg, Sprung Rhythm
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This is somewhat an undoing of everything the speaker was saying before (how beautiful the hovering was: line 12: sheer plod makes plough down sillion . When you plough rich earth, the dirt begins to look shiny and rich. The windhover produces something lovely or more shiny: when hot blue coals break open, they reveal the red on the inside that is brighter than anything else. The descent/falls reveals something shinier and brighter. Humanity is better off having had the fall of adam and eve because it meant that christ had to come to redeem humanity (the greater good) It makes possible the presence of god in the world. If this works as a poem, it"s not because of our set of beliefs. Hardy, hap : hardy wrote some novels, but his last novel was accused of being immoral, and.