`` Pied Beauty `` By Gerard Manley Hopkins - 1433 Words

Throughout recorded history, humans have accredited the happenings of nature to a higher power; shown through religious beliefs past and present. The Greeks believed in a myriad of gods and goddesses, who supposedly governed all aspects of life and nature. They believed in a god or goddess to represent each part of nature from the sun to the sea; there was even a goddess of rainbows. The Grecians used their religion to explain the elements of their world for which they had no other explanation. Christians explain the natural world in a similar fashion. Instead of a god or goddess for each individual piece of nature, they preach that nature was created and is controlled by their God. The belief of divine control is a popular topic in literature; specifically poetry. â€Å"Pied Beauty† written by Gerard Manley Hopkins in 1877, and â€Å"Design† written by Robert Frost in 1922 are just two examples of many that follow this trend. Gerard Manley Hopkins was a 19th century, E nglish, Victorian poet. He was brought up in a religious and artistic family, leading to his becoming a poet and Jesuit priest (Reid). Alternatively, Robert Frost was a 20th century, modern, American poet. Frost lived and taught in New England; through his poetry he described much of its scenery and landscape (Gerber). Despite the differences in their lives and writing styles, Frost and Hopkins developed poems of similar image and theme. Though Hopkins’s â€Å"Pied Beauty† and Frost’s â€Å"Design† are of similar theme, theirShow MoreRelated`` Pied Beauty `` By Gerard Manley Hopkins1460 Words   |  6 Pagespoet Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote in the nineteenth century in England, which was a time when the literature reacted against science. During this era, most people in England believed in God being the creator. Conversely, Robert Frost is a modern poet that wrote in America during the twentieth-century. â€Å"He has been described as the purest class ical poet of America† (Browning and Cousin 243). Many authors throughout this time period rebelled against religion in their writing. The poems â€Å"Pied Beauty†Read MoreAttitude and Appreciation of the Natural World in Gerard Manley Hopkins and Henry Wadsworth Longfellows Poetry1239 Words   |  5 PagesWorld in Gerard Manley Hopkins and Henry Wadsworth Longfellows Poetry The simple beauty of nature is an aspect many of us take for granted in our everyday lives - the endearing sounds of birds welcoming another day and the powerful gush of a waterfall being some examples of these. But there are those individuals who have endeavoured to fully comprehend the marvellous complexity of the world around us. Such findings are present in the work of many poets - namely Gerard ManleyRead MoreWilliam Frost And Gerard Manley Hopkins : Nature And The Creation Of It1231 Words   |  5 Pagesbe so beautiful and innocent. Robert Frost and Gerard Manley Hopkins describe nature and the creation of it in their poems â€Å"Design† and â€Å"Pied Beauty†. They both express similarities and differences in nature between their two poems. Imagery is a very vital aspect in most all poems. In â€Å"Design† and â€Å"Pied Beauty† they go through an extended amount of imagery. Both poems seem to point out unusual aspects in nature. For instance, in â€Å"Pied Beauty† Hopkins states â€Å"fresh-firecoal chestnut falls; finches’Read More Using Animals Symbolically by Using Poetic Devices Essay627 Words   |  3 PagesPoetic Devices I will be discussing the ways in which the poets use animals symbolically by using poetic devices. The three poems that I have chosen are â€Å"The Tyger† by William Blake, â€Å"The Eagle† by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Lastly, Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins. Alfred Lord Tennyson has used an image of an eagle to give the reader an image of a man standing on a cliff top waiting for his world to fall around him. He is in a desolate area; there is no society near him â€Å"ringed with the azureRead MoreA Beautiful Pied Design1185 Words   |  5 Pagespoems Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins and Design by Robert Frost. The easiest likeness to notice is that both of these poems have the tendency to rhyme. However, they both have a different rhyming pattern. Pied Beauty can be noticed as a 1,2,3 rhyme by which I mean the ending words rhyme in 3s such as â€Å"things†, â€Å"cow†, â€Å"swim†, then the next three are â€Å"wings†, â€Å"plough†, â€Å"trim† (Hopkins 1,2,3,4,5,6). Design as a 1,2,2,3,3,2,2,1 rhyme meaning that is a lot more jumpy than Pied Beauty is. LinesRead MoreChanging Characteristics of Poetry from Modern to Romantics3272 Words   |  14 Pages Changing characteristics of poetry from Romantics to Modern Abstract: The characteristics of poetry changed with the changing of eras and literary periods. Romantics have their own features and writing style. Nature and beauty play very important role in Romantic poetry. Victorian poetry is different from Romantics because its themes are about Victorian age, which is influenced by democracy, evolutionary sciences and industrial revolution. After that the Modern age comesRead MoreLiterature Marking Scheme9477 Words   |  38 Pages15 Set texts (syllabus 0486) * from Songs of Ourselves from Part 4 (Poems from the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries): Poems 110 to 123 inclusive, i.e. the following fourteen poems: Sujata Bhatt, ‘A Different History’ Gerard Manley Hopkins, ‘Pied Beauty’ Allen Curnow, ‘Continuum’ Edwin Muir, ‘Horses’ Judith Wright, ‘Hunting Snake’ Ted Hughes, ‘Pike’ Christina Rossetti, ‘A Birthday’ Dante Gabriel Rossetti, ‘The Woodspurge’ Kevin Halligan, ‘The Cockroach’ Margaret Atwood, ‘TheRead MorePoems: City Planners15330 Words   |  62 Pagesbedfellows to the poems, the clearer the shared themes are. The natural comparisons here are obviously â€Å"City Planners† by Boey Kim Cheng and â€Å"Pied Beauty† by Gerard Manley Hopkins. In short, I opposed Cheng and Hopkins: Hopkins revels in the imperfections of life and sees them as beautiful; Cheng laments how we cannot tolerate the imperfections of life as Hopkins wishes we could – the flaws of our lives are eradicated by city planners who replace the natural/the historical/the past with gleaming, soulless