College - Author 1
College of Liberal Arts
Department - Author 1
English Department
Degree Name - Author 1
BA in English
Date
3-2010
Primary Advisor
Kevin Clark
Abstract/Summary
This paper compares and contrasts Gerard Manly Hopkins’ sonnet “As Kingfishers Catch Fire, Dragonflies Draw Flame” to the “terrible” sonnet “Carrion Comfort.” It asserts that since both sonnets explore opposite ends of a paradoxical relationship between man and Christ, which Hopkins often meditated over, both sonnets should work together as spiritual complements of one another, rather than proof of Hopkins’ spiritual derailment.
URL: https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/englsp/3