Quite difficult to understand, certainly! I looked up a reading of the poem (http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/hopkins/hopkins10.html), and it still is tricky to follow.
Getting back to the benediction, however, I think that the allusion to wind is more general than that. Flying is one of the great dreams that artists have cherished for centuries, and a poetic reference to it brings in the echoes of all the poetry that has been written about it.
Re: great benediction!
Getting back to the benediction, however, I think that the allusion to wind is more general than that. Flying is one of the great dreams that artists have cherished for centuries, and a poetic reference to it brings in the echoes of all the poetry that has been written about it.
Or something like that ... I'm no authority! ^_^