Elements of Lyric Poetry—Gerard Manley Hopkins
Abstract
We begin with the first take using elements of literature as the basis for analysis with a poem by the nineteenth-century British Jesuit priest-poet Gerard Manley Hopkins. For Hopkins’s poem “Spring and Fall: to a young child,” we consider a traditional set of poetic elements, with comments about each element appearing as observations about the poem, one poetic element at a time, though, of course, those elements—speaker and situation, diction, syntax, imagery, sound, rhythm and meter, form, and theme—exist together as a harmonious whole.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Poetry Analysis and Criticism
American and British Literature Analysis
Artistic and Creative Research
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Routledge eBooks
- Pages
- 147–151
- Publication date
- 11 March 2026
- Language
- EN
- Document type
- Book chapter