Carrion Comfort Themes
Sadness
Get your hankies ready. "Carrion Comfort" is all about sadness, but it's not your typical "Bummer, somebody ate the last of the pecan sandies" kind of sadness. It's more about deep, dark, practical...
Perseverance
"Carrion Comfort" offers up a classic good news/bad news scenario for its speaker. The bad news? He's got to suffer through an intense, prolonged crisis of despair and depression. The good? He'll l...
Religion
Religion is a safe bet when you're talking theme and Gerard Manley Hopkins. After all, the dude was an ordained priest. That didn't mean, though, that he was free of doubt or conflict in his faith....