...combes, vales, All the air things wear that build this world of Wales. "In the Valley of the Elwy," 1877 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. "Carrion Comfort," 1885 Earnest, earthless, equal, attunable, vaulty, voluminous,...

...day. "Sorry." "Oh," she said. I think it crushed her. Here, from my namesake, is a verse, a sonnet: "Not, I'll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast...can; Can something, hope, wish day come, not choose to be. But ah, but O thou terrible, why wouldst thou rude on me Thy wring-world right foot rock? lay...

...worst, there is none. But Hopkins rejects, rather than indulges in, the negative emotion of despair: Not, I'll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast...strands of man In me or, most weary, cry I can no more. (Carrion Comfort) Hopkins rejects an ultimate despair, because he continues to believe in the existence...

...unlike that terrible sonnet of Gerard Manley Hopkins: Not, I'll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feed 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.12 I return, then, in...

...just compare the first line and the last line, before you read the whole text. Text: Poem (ii) (ii) 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 to be. 5 But ah, but O thou terrible,...

...expressed is more profound and the degree of equilibrium attained in the closing lines more stable: 17 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...

...Comfort, expresses Hopkins' state as the Dublin years trudged on and the end of his life approached: 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...

...rather than indulges in, the negative emotion of despait: Not, I'll not, cartion comfort, Despait, not feast on thee. Not untwist - slack they may be - these last strands of man In me or, most weary, cty I can no more, (Cartion Comfort) Hopkins rejects an ultimare despait, because he continues to believe...

...emerges as illustration and earnest of that hope, form and function fusing into an ecstasy of language: Not, I'll not carrion comfort, Despair, not feast...man In me or, most weary, cry I can no more. I can. . . . Harper's discourse is, of course, quite different: it is oral, instructive, and above all performative....

...Ignatius's spiritual exercise (VIII) on patience. In "Carrion Comfort" the exact repetition of "not" ("Not, I'll not carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee; Not untwist . . . not choose not to be") produces a pattern of negatives and positives ensuing from double negatives...