Word Garden Word List--Gerard Manley Hopkins

 

Good afternoon, my frolicsome flock! It's time for another Word Garden Word List, and this week the words in our list are taken from the poems of English poet Gerard Manley Hopkins.

Hopkins was a Jesuit priest as well as a poet, though his verse did not achieve popularity until after his death. 

Turning to the religious life in his early twenties, his calling was hard on him, as were his issues with his physical and mental health. Life was a struggle for the poet whose work is often filled with bright, dazzling imagery and an awe before nature and God. 

Here is a quote from Wikipedia that reveals some of what Hopkins struggled with:

According to John Bayley, "All his life Hopkins was haunted by the sense of personal bankruptcy and impotence, the straining of 'time's eunuch' with no more to 'spend'... " a sense of inadequacy, graphically expressed in his last sonnets.^[19] Toward the end of his life, Hopkins suffered several long bouts of depression. His "terrible sonnets" struggle with problems of religious doubt. He described them to Bridges as "[t]he thin gleanings of a long weary while"

I had some difficulty in creating this list. Hopkins uses a lot of what is now antiquated language, and also loves to combine two words into one of his own invention. I skipped all of both of those types in order to provide a List that lends itself to modern sensibilities. 

What we do here is to use at least 3 of the 20 words provided in a new original poem of our own. Then just link, and visit others. Easy! This prompt remains active through Sunday. 

Your List:

angels

artist

candle

comb

dappled

disorders

eggs

fetched

ghost

grandeur

havoc

jar

lamps

nursing

remembering

root

soul

stars

topsyturvy

waste

And this week, a bonus word: "adamantine" so as to include at least one of Hopkins' rather flowery choices.