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Fra lippi lippo

Fra lippi lippo “FRA LIPPI LIPPO”, BY ROBERT BROWNING IS A POEM ABOUT A PAINTER WHO’S A MONK. AS A CHILD LIPPO WAS AN ORPHAN. SO HE WAS FORCED TO LEARN THE HARSH REALITIES OF LIFE AT AN EARLY AGE. HE WAS LEFT TO THE STREETS FOR SURVIVAL AND LIVED OFF OF LEFTOVERS FROM THE GARBAGE. “I WAS A BABY WHEN MY MOTHER DIED AND FATHER DIED AND LEFT ME IN THE STREET. I STARVED THERE, GOD KNOWS HOW, A YEAR OR TWO ON FIG-SKINS, MELON-PARINGS, RINDS AND SHUCKS, IN THE LINES ABOVE, LIPPO NOW AN ADULT IS EXPLAINING HIS EARLY CHILDHOOD TO A NIGHT WATCHMAN. NOT LONG AFTER HIS STAY ON THE STREETS LIPPO’S AUNT TOOK HIM TO A CONVENT WHERE HE BECAME A MONK. WHEN IT BECAME OBVIOUS TO THE OTHER MONKS, THAT LIPPO WASN’T GOING TO MAKE A GOOD MONK. THEY DECIDED TO GET RID OF HIM. WHEN IT WAS DISCOVERED THAT HE’S A GOOD ARTIST, THEY DECIDE TO KEEP HIM INSTEAD. THEY WANTED HIM TO PAINT THEIR CHURCH, SO THAT THEY COULD OUT DO THE ALL THE OTHER CHURCHES. THE CONLICTS COMES WHEN THE PRIOR WANTS LIPPO TO PAINT ONLY THE SOULS OF HIS SUBJECTS AND NOT THEIR PHYSICAL APPEARANCES. LIPPO FIND THIS UNBLEIVABLE. HE STATES THAT IF WE PAINT ONLY THE SOUL AND NOTHING ELSE, WE’RE MISSIING THE VERY ESSENCE OF GOD’S CREATIONS. “YOU GET SIMPLE BEAUTY AND NOUGHT ELSE, YOU GET ABOUT THE BEST THING GOD INVENTS: THAT’S SOMEWHAT: AND YOU’LL FIND THE SOUL YOU HAVE MISSED, WITHIN YOURSELF, WHEN YOU RETURN HIM THANKS.” (217-220) IN THE LINES ABOVE LIPPO IS SAYING THAT YOU CAN’T JUST PAINT THE SOUL AND NOTHING ELSE. GOD HAS CREATED THESE ENTIRE THINGS FOR OUR EYES TO SEE. HE EXPLAINS THIS IN THE FOLLOWING LINES: “---THE SHAPE AND THE WONDER AND THE POWER, THE SHAPES OF THINGS, THEIR COLOURS, LIGHTS AND SHADES, CHANGES, SURPRISES, ---AND GOD MADE IT ALL!”(284-286) IN SHORT LIPPO IS SAYING THAT GOD CREATED THESE THINGS PURE AND SIMPLE. SO WHY SHOULD HE PAINT THE SOUL WITHOUT FOUCUSING ON THE BODY? THIS WOULD ONLY GO AGAINST WHAT GOD HAS ALREADY CREATED. “THE WINDHOVER”, BY GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS IS A VERY DEEPLY SPIRITUAL POEM. THE POEM IS DESCRIBING THE FLIGHT OF A HAWK. THE FIRST EIGHT LINES OF THE POEM IS AN OBSERVATION OF THE BIRDS FLIGHT. THE HAWK IS IN A STEADY FLIGHT OF CIRCLING AGAINST THE DAWN SKY—“OF THE ROLLING LEVEL UNDERNEATH HIM STEADY AIR, AND STRIDING”(3). THE STEADY FLIGHT OF THE HAWK IS STRIKING, BUT THE SUDDEN BUCKLING DOWNWARD IS EVEN MORE EXCITING. THE BEAUTY OF THE HAWK AS IT BUCKLES AND DIVES DISPALYING IT’S BEAUTY OF FLIGHT---“BRUTE BEAUTY AND VALOUR AND ACT, OH AIR, PRIDE, PLUME, HERE BUCKLE! AND THE FIRE THAT BREAKS FROM THEE THEN, A BILLION TIMES TOLD LOVELIER, MORE DANGEROUS, O MY CHEVALIER!”(9-11). IN THE PROCEEDING LINES THE POEM SWITCHES FROM THE EIGHT LINES OF OBSERVATION TO THE NEXT SIX LINES OF COMMENTARY. THE LAST SIX LINES OF THE POEM IS A METAPHOR ABOUT LIFE. THE INCREASED BEAUTY OF THE AS IT DIVES IS COMPARED TO A PLOUGH AND BURNING WOOD---“NO WONDER OF IT: SHEER PLOD MAKES PLOUGH DOWN SILLION --- SHINE, AND BLUE-BLEAK EMBERS, AH MY DEAR, FALL, GALL THEMSELVES, AND GASH GOLD-VERMILION”. (12-14) Bibliography:

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