God’s Grandeur
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"God’s Grandeur" is a renowned sonnet by Gerard Manley Hopkins that celebrates the presence of divine glory in the natural world while lamenting humanity’s destructive impact on it.
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| Label | Occurrences |
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| God’s Grandeur canonical | 1 |
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
poem
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sonnet ⓘ |
| anthologizedIn | collections of English religious poetry ⓘ |
| author | Gerard Manley Hopkins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| containsConcept |
inscape
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instress ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| criticReception | widely regarded as one of Hopkins’s finest sonnets ⓘ |
| firstLine | The world is charged with the grandeur of God; ⓘ |
| form | Italian sonnet ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Catholic theology
NERFINISHED
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Hopkins’s Jesuit vocation ⓘ Romantic nature poetry ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryDevice |
alliteration
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assonance ⓘ enjambment ⓘ imagery ⓘ metaphor ⓘ paradox ⓘ simile ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Victorian era NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| meter | primarily iambic pentameter ⓘ |
| movement |
Jesuit poetry
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Religious poetry ⓘ |
| notableImage |
crushed foil that gathers to a greatness
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the Holy Ghost brooding over the world ⓘ the brown brink eastward springs ⓘ the last lights off the black West ⓘ the world is charged like shining foil ⓘ |
| octaveFunction | presents problem of human disregard for God and nature ⓘ |
| publicationStatusDuringAuthorLife | not widely published in Hopkins’s lifetime ⓘ |
| religiousOrderContext | Society of Jesus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religiousTradition | Christianity ⓘ |
| rhymeScheme | abbaabba cdcdcd ⓘ |
| sestetFunction | offers resolution through enduring presence of the Holy Ghost ⓘ |
| structure | octave and sestet ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
God’s presence in the world
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effects of human labor and industry ⓘ |
| theme |
divine glory in nature
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humanity’s destructive impact on nature ⓘ industrialization and its effects ⓘ relationship between God and the natural world ⓘ spiritual renewal ⓘ |
| tone |
lamenting
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reverent ⓘ ultimately hopeful ⓘ |
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