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Societies Neglect For God's Grandeur
Title: Societies Neglect For God's Grandeur
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 991 | Pages: 4.2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Societies Neglect For God's Grandeur
Societies Neglect For God's Grandeur
In Gerard Manley Hopkins' sonnet "God's Grandeur," the speaker is an omniscient observer of mankind -- probably Hopkins himself. He is speaking to man in an effort to help society realize the beauty in life. Hopkins senses several errors in his species. He believes society fails to recognize the grandeur of God and is content to tread the earth and waste vast resources. "God's Grandeur" appeals to the readers' sensitivity and …showed first 75 words of 991 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 991 total…smeared with toil;
And wears man's smudge and shares man's smell: the soil
Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.
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And for all this, nature is never spent;
There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;
And though the last lights off the black West went
Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward springs-
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Because the Holy Ghost over the bent
World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.
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