NOT, I'll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee; Not untwist — slack they may be — these last strands of man In me or, most weary, cry / can no more. I can ; Can something, hope, wish day come, not choose not to be. Speak What We Feel: Not What We Ought to Say - Page 27by Frederick Buechner - 2009 - 176 pagesLimited preview - About this book
| George O'Neill - 1919 - 206 pages
...hear defiance definitely hurled at the powers of evil : — Not, I'll not, carrion comfort, Despair, feast on thee, Not untwist — slack they may be —...these last strands of man In me or, most weary, cry / can no more. I can. In a more peaceful moment he writes the beautiful sonnet on patience — "patience,... | |
| H. Arthur Klein, Pieter Bruegel - 1963 - 177 pages
...and hope are confronted in the opening lines of Gerard Manley Hopkin's great poem, "Carrion Comfort": Not, I'll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast...these last strands of man In me or, most weary, cry 1 can no mere. I can ; Can something; hope, wish day come, not choose not to be. So even in the ultimate... | |
| 1923 - 470 pages
...honesty, that the form itself of his poem shares the emotional stress of the man, and is twisted and bent. Not, I'll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast...these last strands of man In me or, most weary, cry f can no more. I can; Can something, hope, wish day come, not choose not to be. But ah, but O thou... | |
| Gerard Manley Hopkins - 1973 - 164 pages
...desolation of "breakdown," it is the minimal necessary virtue to resist the voices of despair. . . . Not, HI not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee;...these last strands of man In me, or, most weary, cry 7 can no more. I can; Can something, hope, wish day come, not choose not to be. Fr. D'Arcy doubts that... | |
| Neil Nakadate - 1981 - 358 pages
...of the Conradian vision. Hence Warren's stubbornly hopeful, even defiant epigraph from Hopkins: "No, I'll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee;/...these last strands of man/ In me or, most weary, cry J can no more. I can;/ Can something, hope, wish day come, not choose not to be." l4. Specifically,... | |
| Donald Woods Winnicott - 1991 - 192 pages
...Actual quotation, from the poem 'Carrion Comfort', would be: 'Not, I'll not ... . . . most weary, cry / can no more, I can; Can something, hope, wish day come, not choose not to be.' Now at last I could bring in the dream - that the girl's paintings were no better - this negative is... | |
| Marjorie Perloff - 1990 - 384 pages
...The allusion is to Hopkins's "Carrion Comfort": Not, I'll not. carrion comfort, Despair, not least on thee; Not untwist — slack they may be — these...strands of man In me or, most weary, cry I can no inure. I can; Can something, hope, wish day come, not choose not to be. Here, in the final paragraph... | |
| Peter L. Rudnytsky - 1993 - 360 pages
...in the poem recalls this patient's struggle — in her life and within the analysis: Carrion Comfort Not, I'll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast...these last strands of man In me or, most weary, cry / can no more. I can; Can something, hope, wish day come, not choose not to be. But ah, but O thou... | |
| Peter L. Rudnytsky - 1993 - 360 pages
...in the poem recalls this patient's struggle — in her life and within the analysis: Carrion Comfort Not, I'll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast...slack they may be — these last strands of man In me ór, most weary, cry / can no more. I can; Can something, hope, wish day come, not choose not to be.... | |
| Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pages
...like this, and their scourge to be As I am mine, their sweating selves; but worse. CARRION COMFORT Not, I'll not, carrion comfort. Despair, not feast...these last strands of man In me or, most weary, cry 1 can no more. I can; Can something, hope, wish day come, not choose not to be. But ah, but O thou... | |
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