Literary Analysis Of God's Grandeur By Gerard Hopkins

The poem “God’s Granduer” is an Italian sonnet that uses rhyming sounds and poetic language to depict its meaning and message. Gerard Hopkins, the author of this poem, is writing to describe the outstanding power of God and the natural world he has created. In order for the readers to completely understand the aspects of the poem, Hopkins is trying to explain the readers will need to first understand the poetic language throughout the poem. Many people take for granted what is right in front of them and forget how or what placed it there; this is the theme of this poem. Throughout the poem there are many signs of poetic language, such as metaphors, similes, allusion, imagery, and personification to depict how God’s power, influence, and creation …show more content…
Throughout the entire poem alliteration can be found; for example, a reader might find a place in the poem where there are syllabus of words coming together to make a rhythm. In lines one and two when Hopkins says, “The world is charged with the grandeur of God” (1) and “It will flame out, like shinning from shook foil” (2). The purpose of this literary device in this poem is to make the passage more memorable and to it more tuneful. God’s Gradneur is an Italian sonnet that consists of an octave and a sestet, the first eight lines being the octave and the last six being the sestet. These two groups of lines make a rhythmic sound throughout the poem. The octave starts by making a spring rhythm that allows the words and phrases of the poem flow together making it easier to comprehend. Hopkins states in line seven “And wears a man’s smudge and shares a man’s smell: the soil” (7). In this line of the poem personification can be found. Hopkins is comparing the soil to characteristics of a man because the earth’s surface has been soiled by man’s doings. The earth was once beautiful and full of nature, but now is scarce by the footprint of