Who is God Gerard Hopkins Explores
Who is God? A theme that Gerard Hopkins seems to have spent his life exploring and attempting to answer through his poetry. By exploring nature around him, Hopkins adds insight to God's relationship with and essential role to man-- that of creator and redeemer. In his poem "Windhover" we see a prayer to God as the all-powerful being in which we attempt to give ourselves fully over to-- and through the observance of a falcon we see Christ's descent from heaven to save mankind. The images in "God's Grandeur "further Hopkins exploration by following man's sinful nature, oblivion to grace and hope of salvation through Christ. Suggesting that the Almighty's grandeur comes from redemption of the unworthy. By harmonizing these poems the reader can begin to uncover Hopkin's understanding of the greatness of God and mankind's relationship with Him through salvation and grace. Throughout the octave of his sonnet, "God's Grandeur", Hopkins uses the natural imagery to explore the Biblical acts of creation, fall of man, Christ's sacrifice, and his disgust of man's continuance in sin and destruction of nature to show just how unworthy of God's grace man is. Through the act of creation Hopkins establishes that God's power is absolute and ete
" Hopkins also takes comfort in that, despite man's shortcomings God has continued to work, through the Holy Ghost that "over the bent/world broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings. The illusion of the plowman speaks to Christ's sacrifice cutting the way for future generations to be saved, and the black embers of a sinful nature breaking apart to reveal the red blood of Christ and the gold of heaven-the promise of eternal life. In line seven Hopkins speaks about his heart being in hiding as he watches this display of power over the natural forces. I believe Hopkins is saying that the grandeur of God is that, despite our blatant disregard for His creation and sacrifice, He does not abandon us. This poem is a prayer to God; Hopkins dedicates it to Christ. Hopkins alludes to the electricity to show God's absolute power, oil to represent the atoning blood of Christ, and the protection and nurturing of His people through the symbol of a mother bird taking care of her young. I think that despite this show of divine nature Hopkins can be stirred for Christ, but is unable to give his heart fully over to Him. " Meaning that God, through the Holy Spirit, protects His people like a mother bird who shelters and broods her young in her wing and close to her breast. By using imagery from the natural world around him in these two works, the writer illuminates two essential roles -- creator and redeemer. In octave of the poem the writer is watching the mastery of the falcon and comparing it to the supernatural power of God. Although Hopkins uses the same type of natural symbolism in his poem, "The Windhover", he concentrates on one central image to shed light on the redeeming and all-powerful nature of God. "And all for this, nature is never spent. The red feathers are much like Christ's blood that was shed.
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