"God's Grandeur" The poem "God's Grandeur" by Gerard Manley Hopkins is excellent. He takes the subject of God and relates it to nature while expressing how he feels about it and how he believes other people feel. "God's Grandeur" is such a great p...

In "God's Grandeur" by Gerard Manley Hopkins readers can find many sound devices. Examples of such devices are alliteration, onomatopoeia, and assonance which give the poem a sense of action. Thus, they help to bring out the true meaning and sentiments found in the poem. The beginning section of t...

In "The May Magnificat" Gerald Hopkins describes the merry month of May as Mary's month, and for that reason it is all the more magnificent. May is Mary's month because she is no other than the great Mother Goddess of earth's renewal. When he asks the 'mighty mother' why May is her month ...

Passing Sadness There is something about the passing of a season or the end of an enjoyable event that provokes the emotions. The young seem particularly affected by such emotion. Two cases in point are the grief felt by Margaret in Gerard Manley Hopkins' "Spring and Fall" and the...

The Windhover In Gerard Manley Hopkins' poem "The Windhover" there is a sort of representational allusion to Christ and Jesus. In other words the speaker praises the Lord by praising what he takes as a symbol for Christ, the windhover himself. Through out the poem the speaker symbolizes Christ...