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Hopkins' "dead letters" and Victorian Postal Reform
Gerard Manley Hopkins' use of dead letters in 'I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark, not Day' is likely to refer in part to the Victorian postal reform and the office for collecting undeliverable mail. The poem analyzes boundaries between belief and doubt, which tie to the use of the Dead...
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| description | Gerard Manley Hopkins' use of dead letters in 'I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark, not Day' is likely to refer in part to the Victorian postal reform and the office for collecting undeliverable mail. The poem analyzes boundaries between belief and doubt, which tie to the use of the Dead Letter Office through questions of the postal reform's success. However, the poem does not necessarily criticize the progress because most dead letters were the fault of the sender rather than the system and so can represent the success or failure of relations between self and society or even self and God. |
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