Dappled Things
Here's the path around Waterloo Lake in Roundhay Park, Leeds, yesterday morning:
I love the dappled effect of sunshine through trees.
So, I believe, does just about everyone else. There's a poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins that begins "Glory be to God for dappled things" - you can find it here if you want to.
I'm not quoting it because it's a rather strange poem if you ask me (or even if you don't) and actually I think it goes a bit downhill after the first line. The rhythm's called Sprung Rhythm, I seem to remember from my Eng Lit days.
However, although I'm not religious I'm with Gerard on this - dappled things are delightful, generally, and I'm not sure why. Perhaps, in ancient times, a dappled clearing in the forest was a safe place to be.
I love the dappled effect of sunshine through trees.So, I believe, does just about everyone else. There's a poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins that begins "Glory be to God for dappled things" - you can find it here if you want to.
I'm not quoting it because it's a rather strange poem if you ask me (or even if you don't) and actually I think it goes a bit downhill after the first line. The rhythm's called Sprung Rhythm, I seem to remember from my Eng Lit days.
However, although I'm not religious I'm with Gerard on this - dappled things are delightful, generally, and I'm not sure why. Perhaps, in ancient times, a dappled clearing in the forest was a safe place to be.
posted by Daphne at 12:44 pm
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I think you're right about a dappled clearing being a safe place. I'm looking for one but the sun keeps letting me down.
Gerard Manley Hopkins also wrote things you'd like more -
http://www.bartleby.com/122/40.html
that one's nice and gloomy.
I'm sure I've read this post before.
So you would also like this, then?
Aha, John Atkinson Grimshaw.
http://www.johnatkinsongrimshaw.org/Tree-Shadows-on-the-Park-Wall,-Roundhay-Park,-Leeds-large.html
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