Pied Beauty Poem Essay

God gives people a sense of hopefulness and hopelessness. God as the creator of everything, it gives us the feeling of vitality and faith. At the same time, God is also everything's destination which scares people. This essay will explore how beauty of nature and the beginning and terminal of everything illustrate the idea of god with references to Gerard Manley Hopkins’ poems. They are The Windhover, Pied Beauty, I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day and No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief.
To start with, god is the creator of all and the beauty of his creation have been stressed. In The Windhover, the first line has addressed God. 'To Christ our Lord' (1) It emphasis that god as the creator of all is like a concrete person that can talk to. The …show more content…
'Fire' does not only indicate the red feather of windhover but also the nature that is dangerous. It explains that windhover is a forceful bird that its toughness conquers the powerful force of nature, i.e. the wind. The connection of nature and windhover has stressed the creation of god is as amazing as god himself that they are able to conquer difficulties and challenges. The windhover is also connected to 'chevalier', the knight, which narrator has tried to link windhover to all the amazing things that he could have imagine. The beauty of windhover in the narrator's eye is clearly seen, which also relates to his appreciation for god, the creator of all.
Similarly, in Pied Beauty, it also highlights narrator's appreciation and praising towards god. The narrator has compared the constantly changing nature to the never-changing quality of god. The first line of Pied Beauty stressed the glorification of god. ‘Glory be to God for dappled things –’ (1) Narrator praises god for creating spotted things for thing that look unique. ‘Landscape plotted and pieced – fold, fallow, and