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[Hopkins] felt that everything in the universe was characterized by what he called inscape, the distinctive design that constitutes individual identity. This identity is not static but dynamic. Each being in the universe 'selves,' that is, enacts its identity. And the human being, the most highly selved, the most individually distinctive being in the universe, recognizes the inscape of other beings in an act that Hopkins calls instress, the apprehension of an object in an intense thrust of energy toward it that enables one to realize specific distinctiveness. Ultimately, the instress of inscape leads one to Christ, for the individual identity of any object is the stamp of divine creation on it.
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References
- 1 2 Pitchford, "The Curtal Sonnets of Gerard Manley Hopkins". Modern Language Notes, Vol. 67, No. 3. (Mar., 1952), pp. 165–169.
- ↑ Hopkins, Gerard Manley. The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, 4th edition. Ed. W. H. Gardner and N. H. Mackenzie. Oxford UP, 1967.
- ↑ Elisabeth W. Schneider, "The Wreck of the Deutschland: A New Reading", PMLA, Vol. 81, No. 1. (Mar., 1966), pp. 110–122.
- ↑ Newlyn, Lucy (2021). The Craft of Poetry: A Primer in Verse. Yale University Press. p. 126. ISBN 978-0-300-25191-3.
- ↑ Mariani, Paul (2016). The World Is Charged: Poetic Engagements with Gerard Manley Hopkins. Liverpool University Press. p. 124. ISBN 978-1-942954-20-0.