The poems God's Will for You and Me and Pied Beauty both deal with an individual's feelings towards God. ... I believe that the writer of God's Will for You and Me did a better job than the writer of Pied Beauty. According to Perrine, Pied Beauty is a bad poem. The poem Pied Beauty seems to be very didactic. The writer is trying to preach to you to praise God because of things such as the beauty of nature. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Relationships Sonnet 130 focuses on the relationship between a man and his mistress; Pied Beauty focuses on the relationship between man and nature. ... The misconception of beauty is that perfection is beautiful; however, the speakers of Sonnet 130 and Pied Beauty compare and praise objects/characteristics that normally go unnoticed. ... The relationship of man and his mistress in Sonnet 130 is equivalent to the relationship of man and nature in Pied Beauty in the sense of disguised beauty. Pied Beauty praised not only the recognized beauties of nature, but the "strange- things that may not...

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Poems such as "Pied Beauty" by Hopkins seem to reject ponderous rhythm and instead deliberately create a light and skipping effect by joining words and phrases together unusually: "For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; For rose moles all in stipple upon trout that swim Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls, finches" wings; Landscape plotted and pieced - fold, fallow and plough;" The combined effect of alliteration and hyphenation of words in the phrase "Fresh-firecoal chestnut falls" makes the general idea of burnished, glossy chestnuts, falling in a sunny blaze of colours into a sin...

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• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

SHYLOCK No, not take interest; not, as you would say, Directly int' rest; mark what Jacob did: When Laban and himself were compromis' d That all the eanlings which were streak'd and pied Should fall as Jacob's hire, the ewes, being rank, In end of autumn turned to the rams; And when the work of generation was Between these woolly breeders in the act, The skillful shepherd pill'd me certain wands, And, in the doing of the deep of kind, He stuck them up before the fulsome ewes, Who, then conceiving, did in eaning time Fall parti-colour'd lambs, and those were Jacob...

• Word Count: 3142
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: High School