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The Windhover, by Gerard Manley Hopkins is a poem about the essence of natural things.
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Poetry The Windhover, by Gerard Manley Hopkins is a poem about the essence of natural things. This poem describes the relationship of human beings to the natural world as the poet is addressing God through the bird. It is praising him for all the marvellous things He has created and that humans can enjoy. The poem consists in three verses. In the first verse, the poet describes the power of the bird as it is portrayed as the master of heavens. This verse captures the movement of the bird in the sky. It starts with "I caught this morning mornings minion" that gives the feeling that the bird is a servant of the sky and it is the morning because it is a good time for hunting. Hopkins puts words together like "dapple dawn-drawn" to portray multi-images as here where the bird is drawn in the sky. Also, the alliteration here produces...
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