"Death blots black out": thermodynamics and the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins.

From: Victorian Poetry | Date: June 22, 2002| Author: Nixon, Jude V. | Copyright information

HOPKINS' POETRY EMPLOYS TO A MARKED DEGREE TROPES OF ENERGY IN THE form of heat, fire, and light. His discourse reveals an attraction to the emerging science of thermodynamics, especially an anxiety with the second law. His energy tropes admit a dialogue between the domains of science and literature, a conversation transcending the very tropes themselves; "shifting a metaphor from its initial field," as Gillian Beer observes, may bring to light homologies (or dissonances) that will...

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