Gerard Manley Hopkins

Last time I talked a little about the structure of Deutschland; how each verse works, what the rhyming scheme is, why the rhyming scheme is. This second installment is about everything else that isn't rhyme, but does make the poem special.…

There are reasons to learn off by heart; even if it's mindless, even if you're not an actor, even if you're not a poet, even if you're not Emily Blunt in The Devil Wears Prada.  I say so because over the summer of 2014 I memorised The Wreck…