On "I wake and feel the dark not day"

This week seeing that we all are working through the night for our honor’s project, I saw it only fitting to do my blog post on the Hopkins poem “I wake and fell the dark, not day”.  I Like this poem for how it progresses and the story it tells. Of course, there are many ways one could interpret it, but this is how I view it. In the opening stanza of the poem he says, “I wake and feel the dark not day” this to me is how Hopkins decided to open his poem about depression. He keeps referring to depression as a “dark” or “black hours” that he can’t get out of.  He later uses the phrase “in yet longer light’s delay” I read this as him saying that he wishes to further prolong happiness or to put in his words, “light”. The next part is the saddest though, he talks about his cry for help and how it is ignored. He says, “Hours I mean years, mean life.” Hinting that his whole life he has struggled yet no one helps him and his cries are “dead letters”.

It is at this point that Hopkins moves from a somber tone to angrier one. In the lines that follow he appears very angry and upset. He calls himself bitter and “Of spirt that dough sours” and then again beating himself up with closing in “As I am mine, their sweating selves; but worse.”

Maybe these are all just very surface level observations of this poem but, nevertheless they are mine and I am very tired. I will see you all tomorrow, and tonight, and in the middle of the night, good luck.  ;)

SIDE NOTE: I realize that I am posting this late. I wrote it yesterday but completely forgot to upload it because of practice last night. I hope it can still be accepted, thank you.