Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 - 1889) Romantic poets see the implication of imagination, myth, symbol and organic nature, and see it as part of the great endeavour to overcome the split between subject and object, the self and the world, the conscious and the unconscious. ... The most obvious departure and questioning of these views would be his indictment of mans" systematic destruction of earth because of their inherent greed. ... The foot cannot feel because it has been shod where "shod" represents man's greed and lust for material gain. ...

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In the section where the child asks the speaker what grass is, he proceeds to explain his symbolism of the grass that utilizes themes of nature (nature's cycles of rebirth and regeneration), a theme of unity and the democracy that runs the country (grass grows everywhere and links everyone's yards together as a whole), and a symbol of death or mortality (grass grows from the ground fertilized by the dead soldiers of the Civil War). ... He wanted to keep sacred the beliefs and ideals that inspired America to grow without succumbing to greed, so his poems were generally less logical a...

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It suggests that the Queen is no longer needed, no even as a figurehead in parliament, and that all that they are worried about is themselves and their greed. ... London itself is constructed as a place of depravation where the people are weak and woeful ("and mark in every face I meet, Marks of weakness, marks of woe") The is also the "chimney-sweeps" who are a symbol of poverty (especially since this job was done by children) showing just how hard it was in the struggle to survive. ...

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