Hopkins: I Wake And Feel The Fell Of Dark, Not Day

Question 1

Themes

Answer 1

Despair
Isolation
Spiritual struggle and anguish
Abandonment by god

Question 2

6 quotes

Answer 2

“I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day”
“What hours, O what black hours we have spent”
“And my lament is cries countless, cries like dead letters sent to dearest him that lives alas! Away”
“I am gall, i am heartburn. Gods most deep decree”
“Selfyeast of spirit a dull dough sours”
“Their scourge to. Be as i am mine, their sweating selves; but worse”

Question 3

Analysis of “i wake and feel the fell of dark, not day”

Answer 3

Opens with striking contrast: dark vs day.
Fell- reinforcing idea that dark is oppressive, figuratively and literally)

Question 4

Analysis of “what hours, O what black hours we have spent”

Answer 4

Repetition: exhaustion and distress
Refers to himself in plural - suggesting himself, his spirituality and his soul.

Question 5

** analysis of “and my lament is cries countless, cries like dead letters sent to dearest him that lives alas! Away” **

Answer 5

His prayers have been going unanswered.
Compares his abandonment to dead letters returned to the sender, unopened

Question 6

Analysis of “i am gall, i am heartburn. Gods most deep decree”

Answer 6

Identifies with bitterness and self loathing
His depression and doubt weigh upon him like heartburn and take on physical symptoms

Question 7

Analysis of “selfyeast of spirit a dull dough sours”

Answer 7

You reap what you sow
Things but be even worse to those who are “lost” to Christianity

Question 8

analysis of “their scourge to be as i am mine, their sweating selves; but worse”

Answer 8

He is his own tormentor.
Sweating in preparation of the heat and torment that awaits them in hell, but feels uniquely and exponentially more affected than others.