Carrion Comfort
The refusal comes before anything else — not despair, not that carrion, not the last slack strands of a man untwisted — and only then the question of who has been laying him out on the ground night after night. The answer is a lion-limbed adversary whose foot rocks over him and whose fan winnows the chaff off the grain, and the syntax of the closing lines comes apart trying to name what the wrestling was for. Set down at Dublin in 1885, in the stretch Hopkins described to Bridges as the worst years of his life, and unread by anyone outside his correspondence until Bridges gathered the poems in 1918.
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- alludes to ↑ Genesis
- ↓ No Worst, There Is None
- ↓ I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark
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