Journal Ten- Pied Beauty

The poem, Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins, is about the colors of things and they way that they look. He talks about the colors of the sky and then goes on to talk about landscapes, whether or not they are "fold, fallow, and plow" (959) He also compares all things, whether they are "counter, original, spare, strange, fickle, freckled, etc.) (959)
I like this poem because it is short and easily understandable. It is just talking about praising God no matter any other factors of the world that might not look normal, and even if you do not like it, all you have to do is praise God because God is the creater of all things. He also says, "He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change (959)" which is a great line in the poem that He is the person you have to worry about, not anything in this world that is bad, ugly, smelly, rotten, etc. God is the only thing that should be on your mind and He does not care if you have the best clothes, the freshest crops, the straightest hair, he loves all of his creations.


Work Cited

Booth, Alison, and Kelly J. Mays. "Pied Beauty." The Norton Introduction to Literature. 10th ed. New York: W.W. Norton &, 2010. 959. Print.