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and vitality to describe another. But all this description is so that Hopkins can portray the image of a small bird and its nest with eggs in it in the middle of spring, an image of beauty. There is a description of the small blue eggs that ?warm? the life within, which is conectied to a stanza further on which deals with how Mary warmed and comforted Jesus whilst he was inside her. Everything is growing, everything is getting bigger and Mary sees all this sympathises with it. She sympathises with nature because she too has seen the miracle of growth, the growth of the lord, just as we witness the growth of Nature, ?All things rising, all things sizing / Mary sees, sympathising / With that world of good, / Nature?s motherhood?. Hopkins consistently keeps writing of how everything

is growing, or as it is said in the next stanza, how everything is magnified. ?Their magnifying of each its kind / With delight calls to mind how she did in her stored / Magnify the Lord?. He is speaking very generally here, like how the flowers are blooming, birds are growing etc. But of how it all seems to happily remind you and be connected in some way, with how Mary carried the lord until birth, how he grew inside of her and ?magnified? as it were. But there is more to this, Hopkins states, there is just the sheer bliss of Spring which played a big part in offering Mary the month of may, ?Well but there was more than this: / Spring?s universal bliss / Much, had much to say / In offering Mary May?. The next two stanzas are could be just read as one, how orchards are covered

with the spotted signs of flowers blooming and how little villages everywhere are happy and ?merry? in the springtime. All the lakes and wooden banks are so beautiful in the springtime, and the way the cuckoo bird will go about its business by steeling eggs and laying its own. It is all this that comes together to make for a perfect season, all adding to why the month of may is perfect for Mary. In: ?Caps, clears, and clinches all ? ? the ?c? sounds stand out very harshly, the words almost all help to put more emphasis on the word ?clinches?. The final stanza is very different from the others, in that it finishes the poem on a very religious note. When Mary was waiting for Christ to be born, Mother Nature would be showing her all this beauty so as to remind her that God was her

Salvation.