Technical description of Gerard Manley Hopkins" poem: The poem in designed as an English and Italian sonnet. ... The poet is creating an effective metaphor in line 9 to line 12, between God's master piece- nature, to his unsuccessful work. ... Lust is very common positive topic in sonnets but here lust is an awful sin that is negative and is upsetting the speaker very much. ... The image of nature that is presented in the poem is hinting of God's creation, which no man will ever achieve. ... This sonnet is an untraditional one, this might mean that the poet, knowing he is asking unt...

• Word Count: 1601
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

This poem takes the form of a sonnet and it is a form used mostly for love poems. Why use a sonnet to write a poem in which you criticise people for being lustful, greedy and destructive? ... This "bare" image of nature, pertains not just to man's destruction of nature, but to his spiritual bareness. ... "And for all this, nature is never spent." ... God through his infinite mercy continues to sustain and rejuvenate nature, with nature representing the physical nature and the human spirit so that we may continue to live in hope. ...

• Word Count: 1415
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• Grade Level: High School

Gerard Manley Hopkins - To what extent do you agree with Robert Bridges view that his poetry is "some of the most musical ever written" Gerard Manley Hopkins is one of the greatest 19th-century poets of religion, of nature, and of inner anguish. In his view of nature, the world is like a book written by God. ... For example in "Carrion Comfort" one of his "Sonnets of Desolation" whereby his music is less exuberant and more intense than in previous poems, he creates a sequence of repeated negatives that help reinforce a feeling of struggle, of a grim determination to hang on to his life -...

• Word Count: 1414
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate