A Comparison of The Poplar Field by William Cowper and Binsey Poplars Felled 1879 by Gerard Manley Hopkins
The first thing that is noticeable is that both the poems are about a
group of trees alongside a river. The other general similarity between
the poems is that they are then later cut down and so the writers are
now deprived of their enjoyment in the "cool colonnade".
However there are many differences between the poems. Firstly we
notice that Hopkins uses far more complex rhyming schemes to capture
the reader. He uses an erratic rhyming scheme and irregular stanzas.
The rhyming scheme that Hopkins uses in the first stanza is of a
simpler scheme than that of the second stanza. Using letters, I have
noted down the rhyming scheme for the first and the second stanza.
This is the rhyming scheme for the first stanza: ABABCBDCC. This row
of letters represents the rhyming words at the end of each sentence.
In the first and the third line, Hopkins uses "quelled" and "felled".
These as you can see rhyme therefore I used the letter A to represent
this. As well as using the letter A, I used B to represent "sun" and
"one", C to represent "rank", "sank" and "bank" and D to represent
"sandalled". Now that we can see the rhyming schemes that Hopkins has
used, you can appreciate the how carefully written it is.
In the second stanza of Hopkins' Binsey Poplars there is also an
extremely complex rhyme scheme. He uses this method: AABCCDDBCEBEEBBB.
As you can see just from looking at the row of letters it looks quite
confound and complex.
Cowper on the other hand has a far simpler rhyming scheme using an
AABB method throughout the whole poem....
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...tached to trees and how
he wishes that mankind would not be so destructive.
I think that in terms of reading, I found that William Cowper's "The
Poplar Field" was a lot easier to read and understand. The poem was a
lot simpler to understand because there wasn't as much imagery put
into the poem that might have mislead the reader. However I thoroughly
enjoyed reading "Binsey Poplars" by Gerard Manley Hopkins because of
the vast amount of thought provoking ideas that came into the poem. It
had a very nice texture to it with all the metaphors and alliteration.
The alliteration certainly had a great effect on me in terms of me
imagining the scene where the trees grew. Hopkins has showed me how
poetry should be written; going over the top to create a picture to
help the reader understand what the poet is trying to convey.
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