Beautiful Piety

Gerard Manley Hopkins was a meticulous man who became a Jesuit priest and worked hard at spreading his faith in Roman Catholicism. Hopkins was acknowledged for his religious themes as well as his unique poetic techniques. Hopkins's poems consisted of what he called `sprung rhythm' as well as assonance, alliteration, and internal rhyme. Hopkins often resembled Romantic poets with his affection for nature and aim for individuality. With his strongly distinct language and eccentric forms, Hopkins's work was often regarded as a twentieth-century poet's writing rather than a Victorian poet's. In his other works such as "Hurrahing in Harvest" or "The Wreck of the Deutschland", Hopkins's emphasis on idiosyncratic literature was illustrated in his depictions of nature in which wild images replaced regular patterns of beauty. In "Pied Beauty", Hopkins's "medievalism influenced his typological as well as his typical mode of artistic representation..." (Bump 83). In this poem, Hopkins describes nature's details with strange correlations and glorifies God for these creations. With the inspiring age of 19th century Impressionist imagination in art, Hopkins had painted his own work of art in a fresh and unpopular manner in "Pied Beauty" (Lowenstein 158). His new presentation of beauty and atypical descriptions of objects in this poem demonstrates his ability to create hypothetical prose. Hopkins's usage of bizarre analogies between objects and abstruse images of nature's concurring differences accentuates the worship of God's existence and makings (Hartman 103). His unusual representation of nature astonishes the audience of the 19th century as well as the normal structure of literature. The 19th century poem, "Pied Beauty" by Gerard Manley Hop...

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...nd diction reveals that anything in nature is beautiful since it came from the hands of God. The creations of imperfections and other things are the great works of God and should be praised. If all deficiencies are detested, there would be no fairness and unification of goodness and positive motives. To acquire complete peace within, one must have leniency and justice towards everything that exists. Gerard Manley Hopkins lays emphasis on the fact that there is no such thing as a perfect life, and imperfections will live continually through nature. With that, all of nature's aspects should be granted respect considering it was made from God. All the imperfections in life ought to be viewed as beautiful and praise be given to God for that. There are many blemishes and errors in the world today that should be disregarded and be recognized for its beauty in existence.