e, a stamp that will never be removed. The final line of the octave is symbolic and is trying to say how out of touch man is with the world. Grigson said: - "Nature and glory in nature must be grasped by reaching to nature's qualities and selfhoods. The God of Gerard Manley Hopkins is not inside nature- he is under the world's splendour and wonder – but one thing he does: through the nature he has made he passes the voltage of the current of his love, his grandeur." From this I understand that he thought that Hopkins' not only conveys his passion in his poetry but he also passes it on to us, I agree with this, as Hopkins poetry is intense and engrossing.
             Hopkins begins the sestet with a careful choice of words it brings to mind money with the materialism of the octave "nature is never spent ". In the second line there is alliteration used; 'dearest', 'deep' and 'down'. There
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