Snchez 1

Fresh Writing ND
Imperfect, Contradictory Beauty by Nathan McDevitt
Main Claim (or Thesis):
Hopkins proposes a message through his poem that ideal beauty is not something
to be grasped at through apophasis or complex logic, but is present in the essence of
things because God, who created everything, is forever the ideal. Hopkins does this
in the groundbreaking form of "Pied Beauty"through its rhythm, alliteration,
assonance, and consonanceand also in the way he approaches poetry, the beauty
ideal, and creation. (reasons mentioned in thesis)

Reason:
One way that Hopkins poetry departs greatly from his contemporaries is its use of
rhythm. -> because

Main Evidence:
Use of the poem Pied Beauty by Gerard Manly Hopkins

Warrant (assumption):
One way that Hopkins poetry departs greatly from his contemporaries is its use of
rhythm. -> Rhythm is good for poems.