No wonder of it: sheer plod makes plough down sillion Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear, Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion.

Gerard Manley Hopkins
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In the poem, "No wonder of it: sheer plod makes plough down sillionShine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear, Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion." By "sheer plod" Shakespeare means a rigid and unimaginative approach to life. He also refers to the "blue-bleak embers" who are only interested in what is solid and tangible. In other words, he is talking about people who have no imagination.

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