in g!.m!. hopkins poem 'spring', the last line of the first verse is : and the racing lambs too have fair their fling'!. can anyone tell me what this means!?
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One of the poetic ideas of Hopkins is that the normal rules of prose are sometimes less important than concerns of rhythm and line movement!. So word order may be changed!.
For example, when describing the flight of the windhover, he uses the line:
"The rolling level underneath him steady air"
- which captures the feel of the bird hovering more successfully than, for example:
"The rolling steady level air underneath him"
In the line you're asking about, "their fair fling" at the end, although more logical grammatically, doesn't capture the jumping, gambolling movement of the lambs!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
Like i guess its describing what the lambs are doing!. Personification view its saying" the lambs are flying"!? idk!. thats wut i got srry !.!.!. i triedWww@QuestionHome@Com