This essay examines the narrated recollections of the spy in Gerard Manley Hopkins’s unfinished poem “A soliloquy of one of the spies left in the wilderness” (1863). Particular attention is paid to the spy’s account of the Israelites’ wilderness wanderings and slavery in Egypt in order to examine Hopkins’s depiction of a will in rebellion against God. After considering the poem’s relationship to Hopkins’s undergraduate years in light of his imminent conversion to Catholicism, the essay investigates the ways in which the soliloquy’s confused chronologies and emendations call attention to the spy’s spiritual disorders. By reading the spy’s internal disorder as a corollary to the social disintegration in Eden that Hopkins identified in Adam and Eve’s rebellion, the essay argues that the soliloquy attributes the speaker’s inner disorientation to his rebellious will set against God. Although the soliloquy appropriates descriptions of the lush Canaanite landscape to describe Egyptian slavery as comfortable, even luxurious, the vestiges of violence repeatedly interrupt the soliloquy’s relentless insistence on Egypt’s “pleasance.” As the soliloquy’s rhetorical maneuvers repeatedly fail to justify the spy’s rebellion, Hopkins explores and displays the impact of spiritual rebellion on the human psyche.

中文翻译：

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“证明了”

本文探讨了杰拉德·曼利·霍普金斯（Gerard Manley Hopkins）未完成的诗“一个留在旷野的间谍之一的自言自语”（1863年）中对叙事的叙述性回忆。为了审查霍普金斯对叛逆上帝的意愿的描述，特别注意了间谍对埃及人在埃及的旷野流浪和奴役的描述。考虑到这首诗与霍普金斯大学的信奉天主教的conversion昧关系后，本文研究了独白的混乱年代和修订引起人们注意间谍的精神障碍的方式。霍普金斯在亚当和夏娃的叛乱中指出，通过将间谍的内心混乱视为伊甸园社会解体的必然结果，这篇文章认为，自白是说话人内在的迷失归因于他对上帝的反抗意志。尽管自言自语地用茂密的迦南地貌来形容埃及奴隶制是舒适的，甚至是豪华的，但暴力遗迹却屡次打断了自以为是的对埃及“喜悦”的不懈坚持。由于自言自语的修辞手法屡屡未能证明间谍的叛乱是正当的，霍普金斯探索并展示了精神叛逆对人类心理的影响。