Caged Skylark

Gerard Manley Hopkins * Track #13 On Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Now First Published

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Gerard Manley Hopkins

1918

Caged Skylark by Gerard Manley Hopkins

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Caged Skylark by Gerard Manley Hopkins is metaphorical poem that compares man’s spiritual limitations to the physical entrapment of a skylark in its cage. Hopkins also implies that the only way that man can achieve his true spiritual potential is through the blissful release of death, and this bring...

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15 Caged Skylark

As a dare-gale skylark scanted in a dull cage
Man's mounting spirit in his bone-house, mean house,
dwells—
That bird beyond the remembering his free fells;
This in drudgery, day-labouring-out life's age.

Though aloft on turf or perch or poor low stage,
Both sing sometimes the sweetest, sweetest spells,
Yet both droop deadly sometimes in their cells
Or wring their barriers in bursts of fear or rage.

Not that the sweet-fowl, song-fowl, needs no rest—
Why, hear him, hear him babble and drop down to his nest,
But his own nest, wild nest, no prison.

Man's spirit will be flesh-bound when found at best,
But uncumbered: meadow-down is not distressed
For a rainbow footing it nor he for his bónes rísen.

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