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 next line states "Thrush's eggs look little low heavens." Line 9 says, "what is all this juice and all this joy?" Hopkins uses this literary device in order to
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