God’s Grandeur
The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil
Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;
And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;
And wears man’s smudge and shares man’s smell: the soil
Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.
And for all this, nature is never spent;
There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;
And though the last lights off the black West went
Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs —
Because the Holy Ghost over the bent
World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.
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Who wrote the poem "God's Grandeur"?
Gerard Manley Hopkins (July 28, 1844 – June 8, 1889)
Gerard Manley Hopkins was an English poet
and Jesuit priest and is regarded as one of the greatest poets of the Victorian
era. He never published his poems during his lifetime. His friend poet, Robert
Bridges, published his poems after his death. His poetry was famous for its
inventiveness and rich aural patterning. He often praised God through vivid use
of imagery and nature in his poems.
"God’s Grandeur" explanation
The poem talks about the relationship
between the divine world and the world of nature. The speaker praises God for
restoring the world destroyed by human greed. On the other hand, he criticizes
man’s insensitivity to the damages upon nature caused by shallow materialism.
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