Spring

George Manley Hopkin’s poem, “Spring” is a sonnet. The poem deals with the rebirth of a soul. Hopkins writes his poem about the season of spring. Within the poem, Hopkins uses imagery as well as literary devices to portray his meaning. To begin, Hopkins uses quite a bit of alliteration with the lines of his poem. In line 2, Hopkins uses the words long, lovely, and lush to describe the burgeoning weeds of spring. The …

…reader see the difference between living with God and living without God. The final line uses the word, “choice”, this implies that the reader has to make a decision. In this case, the reader must choose the destination of his soul. In conclusion, “Spring” by George Manley Hopkins focuses on the choice between heaven and hell. Hopkins uses literary devices such as alliteration, rhetorical questions and imagery in order to make his meaning by known.