According to OED, inscape is the "`individual or essential quality of a thing; the uniqueness of an observed ... In that sense, inscape is a way of perceiving the outer world; it shows the inner aspect or form of things ... And in his journal, Hopkins says, "`All the world is full of inscape`" (Journals 230; quoted in Mackenzie
Hopkins suggests in the fifth stanza ofThe Wreck of the Deutschland what implications the instress really ... The reason why the poet is so sensitive to the destruction ofthe inscape of an ash is that the presence ... For it makes it possible to enhance the revelation ofthe stress ofthe objects in the external world