Question

All things counter, original,
spare, strange;
Whatever is fickle, freckled
(who knows how?)
With swift, slow; sweet,
sour; adazzle, dim;
He fathers-forth whose
beauty is past change:
Praise him.
Write down the paraphrase of
the above lines​

Answer 1

Paraphrasing of lines from the poem “Pied Beauty” by Gerard Manley Hopkins:

• The world is full of things that are contrasting (counter), things that are unique (original), plain and simple(spare) and also rare (strange).
• They are irregular in shape (fickle) and stained or marked (freckled), but no one really knows how they got the shape and appearance that they do.
• Fast moving things (swift) co-exist with the slow ones, sweetness and sourness both co-exist, as do bright (adazzle) and dull (dim) things.
• It is God who is the creator (father) of all such things. There is so much beauty in God’s creations. God’s creations and the beauty of those things are eternal (past change) and cannot ever be changed.
• God’s creativity deserves praise, and so does He.

More information on poetry:

• https://brainly.in/question/30014534  (“The Grasshopper and the Cricket” by John Keats)
• https://brainly.in/question/40342476 (“The Daffodils” by William Wordsworth)
• https://brainly.in/question/40598337 (“The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost)
• https://brainly.in/question/43626038 (“Sweetest Love, I Do Not Go” by John Donne)
• https://brainly.in/question/43906108 (“Ballad of the Landlord” by Langston Hughes)
• https://brainly.in/question/43934339 (“Lines Written in Early Spring” William Wordsworth)
• https://brainly.in/question/44093370 (“The Charge of the Light Brigade” by Lord Alfred Tennyson)

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