The Sycamore branches out in all directions. It's trunk starts out as a thick strong base which breaks off ino smaller branches. Each branch divides itself until it is a clump of small twigs. These small twigs are drooped down at the end with leaves of green and brown. The branches start ot going up towards the sky and then point sideways and eventually some of them point down to the ground. The sycamore is full of twists, curves and spirals as it branches further and further out. Its trunk and branches are formed by cylinders. The Harry Ransom Center is made purely of straight lines and rectangles. It has not one strong trunk to support it, but many square columns to support it. It does not branch out, but just goes straight up and down, not a curve to be found. The leaves of the sycamore give it a light density while the HRC is thick as can be. It does not movein the breeze like the sycamore, it just stays still. I can hear the leaves of the sycamore brush against each other, the HRC makes no noise. "In his early poetry Hopkins had tried to recreate their ideal of luminosity by using the lapidary adjectives of which Keats was so fond, but thesae invocations of the colors of gems in his verse landscapes unfortunatly simply functioned as touchstones for his other wordl aestheticism." "but all within his head was healed where the wing dipped and the song wheeled.