"Poem of the Week: Felix Randal by Gerard Manley Hopkins"
"The emotions driving the poem are complex. Physical admiration, possibly attraction, is clearly present in the second line with its unexpected alliterative jolts—'his mould of man, big-boned and hardy-handsome.' Alliteration is a Hopkins signature, of course, but it seems especially resonant in this poem—plainly audible, but never intrusive."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Michael Heller on “Bandelette de Torah”
"When I first saw the bandelette in the Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme, in Paris’s Marais district, I immediately experienced one of those Rilkean “bursts,” for here was an object, that in its ornate yet near-transparent being, invoked so much of the social, cultural and historic struggles of the Jews which are writ large across and infuse the whole of Western culture from earliest times through the rise of Christianity and the Church fathers, on up to the Shoah." |
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