God s Grandeur By Gerard Manley Hopkins - 1074 Words

Gerard Manley Hopkins’ poem God’s Grandeur is about man kind’s ignorance of God’s presence and power in the world and their destruction of said world. Using imagery, form, word choices and rhythm/meter, Hopkins explains how man’s greed destroys nature, how seeking our own pleasures can take us away from God and how, even though we move away from God, he never moves away from us. Based on the fourteen lines and the rhyme scheme ABBAABBA (the octave) and CDCDCD (the sestet), It is deduced that God’s Grandeur is an Italian sonnet. The iambic pentameter, however, is unusual. In usual iambic pentameter a unstressed syllable usually follows an stressed syllable or the other way around. However, God’s Grandeur there are stressed syllables that follows one-another, changing the meter and removing a musical quality from the sonnet: â€Å"It will flame out, like shinning from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness like the ooze of oil Crushed.† (Line 2-4). The poem is also broken into two paragraphs; the disjointing effect of the poem is symbolic of the lack of cohesion in the world due to mankind’s destructive works and confusing things can become when man moves away from God. By choosing such a strict form of poetry and eliminating the whimsical quality, the poet’s desire to maintain the seriousness of the subject matter and a desire to deliver a high emotional impact is evident. The poet uses the first four lines of the poem to illustrate the magnitude and magnificence ofShow MoreRelatedGod s Grandeur, By Gerard Manley Hopkins1115 Words   |  5 PagesWhen God created humankind and nature, he intended them to be connected to each other. â€Å"God’s Grandeur†, a poem written in 1877 by Gerard Manley Hopkins depicts the interconnection between the natural world and humankind. The poem describes the beauty of God’s creation and how humankind tends to dismiss the fact that the world is a beautiful pl ace. Hopkins formats the poem as a fourteen line sonnet where a problem is introduced in the first eight lines and a solution to the problem in the last 6Read More Comparing Matthew Arnolds Dover Beach and Gerard Manley HopkinsGods Grandeur1291 Words   |  6 PagesComparing Matthew Arnolds Dover Beach and Gerard Manley HopkinsGods Grandeur      Ã‚   Matthew Arnolds Dover Beach, and Gerard Manley Hopkins Gods Grandeur are similar in that both poems praise the beauty of the natural world and deplore mans role in that world. The style and tone of each poem is quite different, however. Arnold writes in an easy, flowing style and as the poem develops, reveals a deeply melancholy point of view. Hopkins writes in a very compressed, somewhat jerky styleRead MoreAnalysis Of Hopkins Poem Gods Grandeur Essay examples1429 Words   |  6 PagesGerard Hopkins wrote Gods Grandeur in 1877 right around the time he was ordained as a priest. 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However, as the poem progresses Hopkins expresses hope in the world and Gods everlasting presenceRead MoreThe poem, God’s Grandeur by Gerard Manley Hopkins is an Italian Sonnet572 Words   |  2 PagesThe poem, God’s Grandeur by Gerard Manley Hopkins is an Italian sonnet, which closely follows the traditional Italian rhyme of ABBAABBA, and then CDCDCD. (Shmoop) There are also several words throughout the poem that rhyme within themselves. For example God, rod, trod, shod all rhyme. Gerard Hopkins liked to use sprung rhythm in which the stressed and unstressed syllables have a complicated relationship, and the message desired from the reader can change the rhythm. (Shmoop) Sprung rhythm allowsRead MoreAnalysis Of Thomas Hardy s Hap Essay1724 Words   |  7 PagesWritten in 1866, Thomas Hardy s poem Hap is a response to the nineteenth century movements of secularization and the Industrial Revolution. 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