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Hopkins called "The Windhover" "the best thing [he] ever wrote".<ref>''[http://books.google.com/books?id=afjmf6TpHagC&pg=PA227&lpg=PA227&dq=%22as+the+best+thing+i+ever+wrote%22&source=web&ots=l5T-o45FVd&sig=hjmrmK8EwG-Sf4ZXKeZTmYjEsVQ&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result Poems and Prose of Gerard Manley Hopkins]''.</ref> It commonly appears in anthologies and has lent itself to many interpretations. |
Hopkins called "The Windhover" "the best thing [he] ever wrote".<ref>''[http://books.google.com/books?id=afjmf6TpHagC&pg=PA227&lpg=PA227&dq=%22as+the+best+thing+i+ever+wrote%22&source=web&ots=l5T-o45FVd&sig=hjmrmK8EwG-Sf4ZXKeZTmYjEsVQ&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result Poems and Prose of Gerard Manley Hopkins]''.</ref> It commonly appears in anthologies and has lent itself to many interpretations. |
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The poem appears in the TV series [[Due South]]. It is shared by the characters [[Benton Fraser]] and Victoria Metcalf while they sustain one another on a mountainside during a bitter storm, forming a deep and passionate bond in the process. The episode ''Victoria's Secret'', and with it the first season, conclude with [[Benton Fraser|Fraser]] lying shot on a railway platform reciting ''The Windhover''. |
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Revision as of 23:21, 10 August 2013
"The Windhover" is a sonnet by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889). It was written on May 30, 1877,[1] but not published until 1918, when it was included as part of the collection Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins. Hopkins dedicated the poem "to Christ our Lord".
"Windhover" is another name for the Common Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus). The name refers to the bird's ability to hover in midair while hunting prey. In the poem, the narrator admires the bird as it hovers in the air, suggesting that it controls the wind as a man may control a horse. The bird then suddenly swoops downwards and "[rebuffs] the big wind". The bird can be viewed as a metaphor for Christ or of divine epiphany.
Hopkins called "The Windhover" "the best thing [he] ever wrote".[2] It commonly appears in anthologies and has lent itself to many interpretations.
In popular culture
The poem appears in the TV series Due South. It is shared by the characters Benton Fraser and Victoria Metcalf while they sustain one another on a mountainside during a bitter storm, forming a deep and passionate bond in the process. The episode Victoria's Secret, and with it the first season, conclude with Fraser lying shot on a railway platform reciting The Windhover.
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