Gerard Manley Hopkins

There is a difference between betrayal and pure anger. While utilizing these concepts, George Herbert’s “Deniall” and Gerard Manley Hopkins’s “[Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord…]” are contrasting poems on the subject of prayer. Herbert’s speaker expresses a feeling of betrayal, whereas Hopkins’s poem is lathered with anger. Both poets bend words to their will and use the syntax of their poems to express their feelings beneath the surface. A major difference between Herbert and Manley’s poems lies in

religion can relate to this. The reason why critical thinking and literature is so important in religion is because of the messages that are brought up upon the poetry that shows deep understanding of life. In another poem, "God's Grandeur", by Gerard Manley Hopkins portrays how life is changing every year, and he says "Why do men then now not reck his rod?", as to why do humans fail to acknowledge God's presence anymore (Grandeur). This is another valuable message to the students in school because it

you allow between yourself and others. Personal boundaries help you decide what types of communication, behavior, and interaction are acceptable. “Your personal boundaries protect the inner core of your identity and your right to choices.” -Gerard Manley Hopkins

the time literacy becomes widespread, Old English is effectively a foreign and dead language. And its forms do not significantly affect subsequent developments in English literature. (With the scholarly exception of the 19th century poet, Gerard Manley Hopkins, who finds in Old English verse the model for his metrical system of "sprung

Widdowson’s (1985) et.al view, is used mainly for communication practices wherein the “literary language has no practical form at all and simply makes us see differently” (31). What makes the literary language intricate is when a passage written by Gerard Manley Hopkins is examined, the language is difficult, and therefore if it is intricate, it is literary. Nevertheless, in a passage taken under no selection from Hardy’s Under the Greenwood Tree, the following phrase are to be examined; “How long will you

THEOLOGIANS – SALLIE MC FAGUE AND THOMAS TORRANCE This paper seeks to compare two theologians, one male, one female, one Trinitarian and one mythological, Thomas F. Torrance and Sallie McFague. At the heart of all of Torrance’s theology is the truth of the Trinity. It is foundational to all of his work. For him, the ultimate purpose of theology is knowing God in a personal way that involves both head and heart. He felt we must be faithful to Scripture’s logic. (Torrance, 2008). Torrance was also

Intermediality comprises the combination of the literary text with other media or forms of art, or the incorporation of such media and forms into the literary text. The combinatory mode, which is known from illustrated novels of the nineteenth century, gained new prominence in Alasdair Gray’s self-illustrated novel Lanark (1981) and in comic books or ‘graphic novels’ by writers such as Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman. With regards to English Romantic poet William Blake, both his lyrical Songs of Innocence

The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is unavoidably ambiguous. It can mean poetry written in England, or poetry written in the English language. The earliest surviving poetry was likely transmitted orally and then written down in versions that do

1. G. M. Hopkins, “The Windhover”, “I wake and feel the fell of dark…” 2. William Shakespeare, Sonnets 1-7 3. John Donne, “Valediction Forbidding Mourning”, “The Flea”, “Hymn to God, My God in my Sickness” 4. George Herbert, “The Collar”, “The Altar”, “Love III” 5. Andrew Marvell, “To his Coy Mistress” 6. T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, “Journey of the Magi” 2. Poems for individual reading: 1. William Shakespeare Sonnet 73 (“That time of year…”) 2. John Donne, “Holy

February of 1982, as well as teaching at Oxford as a professor of poetry. These jobs were a five year teaching arrangement. Mid 1980’s he began to translate the tale of Beowulf, and finished it in 1999. Seamus Heaney was influenced by poets like Gerard Manley Hopkins and John Crowe Ransom, who were also Irish. Yet, he was also influenced by the time he spent in America. When he was translating Beowulf, he attempted to keep the Anglo-Saxon tone it had originally, while adding his own twist to it. He maintains