GERARD MANLY HOPKINS

Gerard manly Hopkins was an English poet, Roman Catholic convert and Jesuit priest who due to his large accumulated fame is considered by different readers as the greatest Victorian poet of religion, of nature, or of melancholy. he was a inventor who led experimental explorations in use of prosody and imagery in a period of traditional  verse but because his style of writing so much differed from those of his era , his best poems were not accepted for publication during his lifetime only in later period their worth was recognized.

    
Pied Beauty

Glory be to God for dappled things— 

For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; 

For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; 

Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings; 

Landscape plotted and pieced—fold, fallow, and plough; 

And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim. 

All things counter, original, spare, strange; 

Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?) 

With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim; 

He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change: Praise Him

Summery

In this poem Hopkins says that we should glorify God because he has given us dappled, spotted, freckled, checkered, speckled, things he further says that We should praise God because of the skies with two colors, like a two-colored cow. And the little reddish dots on the side of trout. And the way fallen chestnuts look like red coals in a fire. And the blended colors of the wings of a finch. And also landscapes which are divided up by us into farming plots. And for all the jobs that humans do. 

At first  this may seem strange that Hopkins who is always hailed as genius is telling us hail god because god has given all these things which at first sight does not seem important but here is where the beauty of Hopkins poetry lies he is telling us this because according to him everything created by god is beautiful for doesn't matter how common or strange it may seem.

Robert Frost

   The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

  

Summery 

The speaker arrives at a fork in the road in Robert Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken." This is a metaphorical depiction of how the speaker has chosen to live his life. Upon analyzing both the options, the speaker notices that one path looks less trodden than the other, although not by much. After he has considered which path to take, a layer of leaves covers both so that it is difficult to tell them apart. In the end, he says he took the road less traveled and it has made all the difference in his life.

Brief explaination

In simple what this poem talks about is the choices we face during an important event in life where we have to make hard choices between easy and well known option that will enable you to live a good but mundane life and hard and untested option  which could be dangerous but can lead to greatness and also sometimes ruin and once the choice is done it cant be undone. this poem makes young ones think about the choices they are going to make and the older generation to remember what choices they made during their lifetime.

     ABOUT AUTHOR

Robert Frost aka Robert Lee Frost(March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) was an American poet whose works are Known for his realistic depictions of rural life. he was fairly well known and awarded during his lifetime for his works, winning four times the Honorable Pulitzer prize for poetry and also awarded congressional gold medal in1960 and in 1961 was named poet laureate of vermont