environmental change‚ experienced an astounding shift in poetic style‚ in which many based their work on the ‘beauty’ of their surroundings‚ and how mankind affected this. Of this period‚ two of the leading nature poets in British literary history‚ Gerard Manley Hopkins and William Wordsworth became known‚ renowned as great figures in British literary history. Both adopted a ‘sacramental’ view of nature‚ that is they saw beyond the obvious features commonly associated with the natural world such as phenomenal
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The two poems "The Discovery" by Gwendolyn MacEwen and "Pied Beauty" by Gerard Manley Hopkins have many similarities and differences. "The Discovery" by MacEwen is a poem about constant exploration and how nothing can ever fully be understood. "Pied Beauty" by Hopkins is a God fearing that is concerned with the continuous appreciation of everything God has created. Both authors depict a main central theme of an unappreciated world. However‚ both authors describe their themes in contradicting ways
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Stephen Lun 11R Eng Literature Comment closely on the following poem‚ discussing how effective the poet shows his admiration for nature. Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins 611 words In the beginning‚ God created the heavens and the Earth and all of its landscapes. Gerard Manly Hopkins intensely shows his adoration and admiration of nature‚ with it being his main theme‚ in “Pied Beauty”. Through diverse and effective uses of structure‚ imagery and symbolism he showcases his love for
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Hopkins’ sonnets typically shift from a personal‚ often sensual experience rooted in the physical world to moral‚ philosophical and theological reflections. Discuss this movement in relation to Pied Beauty. Pied Beauty has one simple meaning: to convey the Jesuit motto "Ad maiorem Dei gloriam." Throughout the poem‚ Gerard Manley Hopkins makes shifts from theological reflections to descriptions of physical experiences. The poem‚ like a psalm‚ gives us a confident description of nature as the work
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On the 13th of March 1879 Gerard Manley Hopkins‚ a curate at St Aloysius’ church in oxford at the time took an afternoon stroll in the country side‚ a place he had been cherishing since he started studying in oxford many years before. He had found that all the bountiful poplars lining the side of the river near Binsey had been cut down. Oxfords countryside had always been very close to Hopkins heart‚ leaving him distressed at the thought that the effervescent beauty of the countryside had been destroyed;
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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
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Hopkins’s unique literary style Gerard Manley Hopkins‚ a Victorian poet‚ still makes many literary critics think his work through over and over again‚ mainly because of his unique use of language. Susan Chambers is in her essay “Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Kinesthetics of Conviction” concerned with “the need for regular renewal”‚ which Hopkins considered highly important (32). Neither Hopkins nor Chambers were absolutely sure what makes us respond differently to familiar things after a period
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original‚ spáre‚ strange; Whatever is fickle‚ frecklèd (who knows how?) With swíft‚ slów; sweet‚ sóur; adázzle‚ dím; He fathers-forth whose beauty is pást change: Práise hím. Gerard Manley Hopkins‚ 1918 The Poetry Foundation http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/gerard-manley-hopkins "Gerard Manley Hopkins is one of the three or four greatest poets of the Victorian era. He is regarded by different readers as the greatest Victorian poet of religion‚ of nature‚ or of melancholy. However‚
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God’s Grandeur by Gerard Manley Hopkins (pg. 92) The poem is expressive of God’s presence in the natural world even though man’s exploits have served to destroy nature and its freshness and purity. To the poet‚ God Grandeur is ever pervasive; revealing itself like “flame from shook foil” the world ‘flame’ is significant as it conveys the brilliance of God as the shining light the foil gives off. The poet employs the image of an electric charge‚ which develops into a flame or a light suggesting
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‘God’s Grandeur’ ‘God’s Grandeur’ by Gerard Manley Hopkins is an Italian sonnet written in 1877. I feel that this poem conveys an important meaning about how God will never turn his back on mankind‚ even when they have given up on him. This message is particularly relevant because of what was happening in the world at the time it was being written- technology was advancing and people were beginning to doubt God. An Italian sonnet consists of two verses‚ the first of which being an octave which
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