Inscape in the Windhover?

An object's inscape was held together by a kind of spiritual glue, which he called instress. Getting to know an object's "inscape," according to Hopkins, and showing that "inscape" through words in poetry, was a way of getting closer to God.

What is an example of Inscape?

For example, Hopkins writes in his journal: 'There is one notable dead tree ... the inscape markedly holding its most simple and beautiful oneness up from the ground through a graceful swerve below (I think) the spring of the branches up to the tops of the timber.

Who used the term Inscape?

In his journals, Gerard Manley Hopkins used two terms, "inscape" and "instress," which can cause some confusion.