{"id":1321,"date":"1990-03-05T12:48:56","date_gmt":"1990-03-05T12:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doxaweb.wordpress.com\/?p=1321"},"modified":"2021-03-09T01:48:31","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T07:48:31","slug":"the-hound-of-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doxaweb.com\/blog\/1990\/03\/05\/the-hound-of-heaven\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hound of Heaven"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Theology\/English 436: Catholic Poetry<br>Franciscan University of Steubenville<br>Dr. Regis Martin<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/poetry.elcore.net\/HoundOfHeavenInRtT.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>This poem<\/strong><\/a> by Francis Thompson speaks of a man\u2019s effort to avoid God and his love at all costs. God is represented metaphorically as a hound chasing a man throughout the course of his life in an effort to bring him into His loving presence. The man, fully aware of the hound\u2019s intent, avoids him because he is not prepared to give up the world of temporal pleasures: \u201c&#8230;Though I knew His love who follow\u00e8d, Yet was I sore adread Lest, having Him, I must have naught beside\u2026\u201d In his flight from this \u201ctremendous lover,\u201d the man looks for happiness in his fellow men and in nature. However, his hopes of contentment apart from the hound are shattered. Men display a \u201ctraitorous trueness\u201d to the hound, and communion with nature leaves his soul thirsting for something more: \u201cNature, poor stepdame, cannot slake my drought\u2026\u201d In a cry of total desperation, the man addresses the hound. He realizes that his search has been fruitless and now asks the hound why he has to suffer so much before realizing his dependence on him: \u201cWhether man\u2019s heart or life it be which yields Thee harvest, must thy harvest fields Be dunged with rotten death?\u201d\u00a0 The hound replies: \u201cAll which I took from thee I did but take, Not for thy harms, But just that thou might\u2019st seek it in My arms.\u201d God, as represented by the hound, takes away temporal pleasures not as a punishment but because He wants men to know Him first so that all other things will bring pleasure <em>as revelations of the Creator<\/em>. He pursues us throughout our lives, constantly seeking to draw us closer to Him, and waiting for us to realize our emptiness without Him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The imagery in the poem is well-executed; when Thompson compares men\u2019s souls to wood, for example, a brilliant image accompanies it: \u201cAh! must Thou char the wood ere Thou canst limn with it?\u201d The language, while ornate, is not excessively so. The lines are clear and the vocabulary is very suggestive to the imagination. Although it is perhaps a bit longer than it needs to be, the length makes evident God\u2019s patience with us and emphasizes the futility of our waywardness. In addition, the extended excitement of the pursuit holds the reader\u2019s attention so that the end of the search brings a sigh of relief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Theologically, the poem is very effective. By speaking of man\u2019s universal search for personal fulfillment, the poem testifies to the Word and man\u2019s natural hunger for a relationship with it. The Word (the Voice of the hound) is inescapable, surrounding the man \u201clike a bursting sea\u201d and reminding him that he must depend on God: \u201cWhom will thou find to love ignoble thee, Save Me, save only Me?\u201d The unworthiness of man is counterpoised by the boundless love of God, and the last few verses achieve a distinctively Catholic understanding of God as Father: \u201cAll which thy child\u2019s mistake Fancies as lost, I have stored for thee at home; Rise, clasp My hand, and come!\u201d The image is of a compassionate Father who cares deeply about His children and wants to lead them to His house where they will find eternal security and contentment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thompson centers the poem around the man\u2019s heart as it searches for completion. The heart is the still point of the poem, the place where the Lord can be found struggling to make a resting place for Himself. There is a sense of urgency to the poem; the pursuit of the hound signifies the ongoing efforts of God to draw men to Himself. The poem concentrates on the present moment, the <em>kairos<\/em>, that moment at which divinity extends its hand to mankind in an effort to bring about eternal communion, a moment which penetrates all time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think the poem definitely supports <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Henri_Br%C3%A9mond\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Henri Br\u00e9mond<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s thesis of poetry as \u201can activity essentially directed towards prayer.\u201d The man in the poem is brought to his knees by the realization that he cannot find happiness apart from his divine Master. He begins his search in a state of self-absorption, trying desperately to avoid coming to terms with the Other. Finally, however, he reaches out to the divine in complete awe and self-abandonment. 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