essay on Gerard Manley Hopkins poetry
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Hopkins' innovative style, his use of compound words, sprung rhythm and a contemplative approach, allow the reader to have a greater appreciation of the trials and struggles he faced. Hopkins achieved this by combining his exploration of nature and God together with his belief in the uniqueness of the individual in the context of diversity created by God, or inscape. The way in which the poet expresses his struggles shows us his beliefs and what he thought were fundamental truths.
I feel that Hopkins' use of musicality, vivid imagery, and symbols expresses his deeply held beliefs surrounding God, nature, and the world. In his Petrarchan sonnet, "God's Grandeur," he employs a clear rhyming scheme, writes in iambic pentameter, and fills the poem with alliteration, sibilance and assonance. All of these combine to give the poem a rhythm and a musical quality that conveys the celebratory tone, and that he believes that the beauty of nature is the product of God. He also contrasts this tone, by using much sensual imagery, which is particularly evident in the line, "All is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil; / And wears man's smudge and shares man's smell," In the octave Hopkins notes how people can become caught up in their own self-importance and can forget about God's presence, and his use of imagery illustrates the struggle he has with the commercial, materialistic society he lives in. Hopkins cannot understand why people do not have faith, or why they discard the world they live in, and struggles as he asks, "Why do men then now not reck his rod?" However, in the sestet, Hopkins returns to his faith, and his belief that it is both powerful and rewarding.
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I feel that Hopkins' use of musicality, vivid imagery, and symbols expresses his deeply held beliefs surrounding God, nature, and the world. In his Petrarchan sonnet, "God's Grandeur," he employs a clear rhyming scheme, writes in iambic pentameter, and fills the poem with alliteration, sibilance and assonance. All of these combine to give the poem a rhythm and a musical quality that conveys the celebratory tone, and that he believes that the beauty of nature is the product of God. He also contrasts this tone, by using much sensual imagery, which is particularly evident in the line, "All is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil; / And wears man's smudge and shares man's smell," In the octave Hopkins notes how people can become caught up in their own self-importance and can forget about God's presence, and his use of imagery illustrates the struggle he has with the commercial, materialistic society he lives in. Hopkins cannot understand why people do not have faith, or why they discard the world they live in, and struggles as he asks, "Why do men then now not reck his rod?" However, in the sestet, Hopkins returns to his faith, and his belief that it is both powerful and rewarding.
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