Gerard Manley Hopkins

Gerard Hopkins wrote God's Grandeur in 1877 right around the time he was ordained as a priest. The poem deals with his feelings about God's presence and power in the world. He could not understand how the people inhabiting the earth could refuse or be distracted from God. This confusion was due to the greatness of God's power and overall existence that, to Hopkins, seemed impossible and sinful to ignore. However, as the poem progresses Hopkins expresses hope in the world and God's everlasting presence

Environmental Crisis Exposed in The World Is Too Much With Us and God's Grandeur  In his poem, "The World Is Too Much With Us," William Wordsworth blames modern man of being too self-indulgent.  Likewise, Gerard Manley Hopkins shows how the way we treat nature shows our loss of spirituality in his poem, "God's Grandeur."  We are ruthless by lacking proper appreciation for, being separated from, and abusing nature.   Man lacks proper gratitude for nature.  People often are blind

Language can mean a number of things in regards to literature, it can refer to the slang that is used, the way that the author phrased a sentence, or even the dialect that the work is written in. Authors like Robert Burns, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and W.H. Auden in particular make use of language in the first two ways mentioned as a way of reflecting their respective time periods. Robert Burn’s A Red, Red Rose is a poem that makes perfect use of language in order to display the thoughts

Devices I will be discussing the ways in which the poets use animals symbolically by using poetic devices. The three poems that I have chosen are “The Tyger” by William Blake, “The Eagle” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Lastly, Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins. Alfred Lord Tennyson has used an image of an eagle to give the reader an image of a man standing on a cliff top waiting for his world to fall around him. He is in a desolate area; there is no society near him “ringed with the azure world

Conflict among contexts of the Victorian era, Catholicism and Gerard Manley Hopkins, has shaped Hopkins’ distinctive poetic exploration of religious faith in his poems. However, paradoxically he also challenges the role religion has played in making Victorians repress their natural desires, which compels them to doubt God’s ability. These are clearly evidenced in two of his famous Petrarchan sonnets, the nature poem, ‘God’s Grandeur’ (1877), and the ‘terrible sonnet’, ‘Carrion Comfort’ (1885-1887)

In the history of literature, different aspects are prevalent during the different time periods. The Victorian poet Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote in the nineteenth century in England, which was a time when the literature reacted against science. During this era, most people in England believed in God being the creator. Conversely, Robert Frost is a modern poet that wrote in America during the twentieth-century. “He has been described as the purest classical poet of America” (Browning and Cousin

example of this happening is within the poems Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins and Design by Robert Frost. The easiest likeness to notice is that both of these poems have the tendency to rhyme. However, they both have a different rhyming pattern. Pied Beauty can be noticed as a 1,2,3 rhyme by which I mean the ending words rhyme in 3's such as “things”, “cow”, “swim”, then the next three are “wings”, “plough”, “trim” (Hopkins 1,2,3,4,5,6). Design as a 1,2,2,3,3,2,2,1 rhyme meaning that is

Right now, many forests are being relentlessly decimated in order to meet our needs. In the poem “Binsey Poplars” written by Gerard Manley Hopkins in 1879, the speaker considers this issue while lamenting over the destruction of a line of poplar trees. In this essay, I will argue that the poem shows mankind's own fragility through the felling of the trees because of the speaker's emphasis on the contrast between nature and its destruction and the way nature and humans are associated with the use

Unlike many poets around the world, Gerard Manley Hopkins follows a very unique style of poetry. Instead of using the same-old style of writing that every poet uses, Gerard created his own way to express his thoughts and feelings. Using a unique method, Gerard could write poems that became extremely popular starting in the late nineteenth century. In Gerard’s “The Windhover,” he uses various symbols, rhetorical devices, and strategies to help support his thoughts and to help strengthen his argument

side to nature. Nature is praised in each of the three poems but all have very different meanings and perspectives on nature. Hopkins Poem ‘Pied Beauty’ explores nature 's beauty. It’s described as the perfect place. The poem begins with “Glory be to god” and ends with “Praise god”. The poem is almost a prayer that is thanking god for nature as it is so beautiful. Hopkins also talks about the “rose moles” on the trout as they swim. This shows that God took the time to create such small