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The Caged Skylark by Gerald Manley Hopkins. Part One

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“The Caged Skylark” by Gerald Manley Hopkins 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 sometímes the sweetest, sweetest spells,      Yet both droop deadly sómetimes 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 & 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 uncumberèd: meadow-down is not distressed      For a rainbow footing it nor he for his bónes rísen. Gerald Manyley...
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World Poetry

Hello everyone, as we begin to close up the school year, I would like you to look at the following ten poems and decide which two or three you like more than the others . In our small groups, we can then discuss which ones you liked and why. In addition, in the comments section of the blog, you can leave poems that you like or images that you feel link into the poems listed (a painting that you feel evokes the words of a poem etc). Poem One  This poem - William Blake 's The Tyger - can be found on this page . Why do you have to find the poem within a list of the "Ten Greatest Poems"? Because this page exemplifies the idea that so much of what we study in school and uphold in society is written by 'dead, white European men". Their work is fantastic, don't get me wrong (I've dedicated my life to studying and teaching their words). However, sometimes we have to lift our head up off the page and see what else is out there.  Poem Two Ready to s...
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