Darkening the Subject of Hopkins' Prosody

Hurley, Michael D.

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“…Through the rhythmic novelty, Hopkins intended to reflect the dynamism in nature, Victorian cult of going away from the tradition and celebrate this. Poetry, for Hopkins, is instress, apprehension of an object in its intense texture; and it paves the way to grasp the inscape of the subject in its own distinctive design inscape (Hurley, 2005). Hopkins takes poetry as an enactment for celebration.…”

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“…Sprung rhythm is an irregular prosodic system, a meter propounded by Gerard Manley Hopkins. It is based on the determinate number of accented syllables in a line permitting an indeterminate number of unaccented syllables (Hurley, 2005). In a sprung rhythm, a foot may be composed of one to four syllables, while in English meters it is composed of two or three syllables.…”

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Prosodic Experimentation in Hopkins’ Poetry

Shrivastwa¹

2022

Indian J. Lang. Linguist.

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The paper aims to explore prosodic experimentation and musical sensibility designed for limning the dynamism observed in the Victorian world by the poet, Gerard Manley Hopkins in his poetry, especially, in “The Windhover”, “God’s Grandeur”, “Pied Beauty”, “Inversnaid” and “Spring”. Through a close reading of the prosody, rhythm, rhyme, metrics, alliteration, assonance and onomatopoeia in Hopkins’ poems from the theoretical paradigms of the prosody, and sprung rhythm, propounded by Hopkins himself, and some other theorists, the study is an attempt to prove how Gerard Manley Hopkins exploits the rhythmic novelty to give each poem a distinctive design to capture his apprehension of dynamism, the intense thrust of energy in nature. The finding is that it was the Victorian culture and milieu evoked by the Second Industrial Revolution, technological advance, and Hopkins’ conviction that God manifested in the material world that influenced him to use innovative rhythmic patterns in his poetry so that we could perceive how the universe is characterized by a distinctive design that constitutes individual identity. It is expected that researchers intending to observe the prosodic techniques in poetry in general and Hopkins in particular can take the paper as a reference.

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Prosodic Experimentation in Hopkins’ Poetry

Shrivastwa¹

2022

Indian J. Lang. Linguist.

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“… 1 We have also consulted recent work by literature scholars on sprung rhythm that has addressed Kiparsky's study: Holder (1995), Wimsatt (1998, 2006) and Hurley (2005). We have not found this work helpful for our purpose, since it does not in general address the distributional evidence on which Kiparsky's system rests.…”

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“…We have also consulted recent work by literature scholars on sprung rhythm that has addressedKiparsky's study : Holder (1995),Wimsatt (1998Wimsatt ( , 2006 andHurley (2005). We have not found this work helpful for our purpose, since it does not in general address the distributional evidence on which Kiparsky's system rests.2 For Hopkins as phonetician/phonologist, see his essay inHouse (1959: 267-288), and the correspondence inAbbott (1935aAbbott ( : 41, 1935bAbbott ( : 44, 180, 1956.…”

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Gerard Manley Hopkins' sprung rhythm: corpus study and stochastic grammar

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Moore-Cantwell

2011

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Sprung rhythm is a complex poetic metre invented and used by Gerard Manley Hopkins. We re-examine and amplify a seminal analysis of this metre by Kiparsky (1989). We coded the sprung rhythm corpus for stress, weight and phrasing, then used a computer program to locate every scansion compatible with Kiparsky's analysis. The analysis appears to be nearly exceptionless. However, it is incomplete in that it permits dozens or even hundreds of scansions for certain lines. We propose a Parsability Principle for metrics mandating that ambiguity of scansion be minimised, and suggest that under this proposal, the Kiparskyan system is not a possible metre. Our own revised analysis adds ten new constraints and is cast in the form of a stochastic maxent grammar. It produces an acceptably low level of ambiguity in metrical parsing, and is supported by a good match to the diacritics Hopkins employed to mark his intended scansion.

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Native Traditions: Anglo-Saxon and Alliterative Verse

Phelan¹

2012

The Music of Verse

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Darkening the Subject of Hopkins' Prosody

Cited by 6 publications

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Prosodic Experimentation in Hopkins’ Poetry

Prosodic Experimentation in Hopkins’ Poetry

Gerard Manley Hopkins' sprung rhythm: corpus study and stochastic grammar

Native Traditions: Anglo-Saxon and Alliterative Verse

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