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Why hopkins called “the windhover" the best thing he wrote?

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The name refers to the bird's ability to hover in midair while hunting prey. ... The bird then suddenly swoops downwards and "rebuffed the big wind". The bird can be viewed as a metaphor for Christ or of divine epiphany. Hopkins called The Windhover"the best thing [he] ever wrote".

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