In Gerard Manley Hopkins’s “Felix Randal,” the speaker has different concerns and different ways of healing from the loss of someone than Seamus Heaney’s “Seeing the Sick.” Though both poems cover the same morbid concept, Hopkins’s poem focuses...

The first stanza of Gerard Manley Hopkins’s The Wreck of the Deutschland is, in essence, a snapshot of the entire poem in miniature, for its lines encompass the poet’s doubt and fear but end in the promise of rebirth, the promise that God has...

The central role of religion in Hopkins’ life gives it a similar significance in his poetry. The later poems by Hopkins, collectively generalised as the ‘Terrible Sonnets’, emphasise how religious doubt and faith, affected largely by personal...

Elegy is a poetic form to which Hopkins continually returns. In one of his most famous poems about death, “Spring and Fall,” Hopkins’s speaker uses the occasion of “Goldengrove unleaving” to teach a child about her own mortality (2). In an earlier...

In his essay “Action and Repose—Gerard Manley Hopkins’s influence in the Poems of Elizabeth Bishop,” Ben Howard notes the strong influence Hopkins had on poems like “The Prodigal” and “The Fish,” by Elizabeth Bishop. Another one of Bishop’s poems...

During the Victorian Era, most poets did not focus on nature and the divine world, but instead on cultural and societal issues occurring in England during that time. But Gerard Manley Hopkins chose to not pursue the path of his fellow poets, and...

It is not difficult to see the parallels in the lives and works of Christina Rossetti and Gerard Manley Hopkins. Both poets suffered bouts of depression, both were involved in the Tractarian movement – with Hopkins converting to Roman Catholicism...

In much of the poetry of Gerard Manly Hopkins it is his mental anguish and suffering that strikes a chord with the reader. The extreme nature of his suffering can be seen most clearly in two of his terrible sonnets, “No worst, there is none” and “...

Gerard Manley Hopkins's poem, "Spring and Fall: To a Young Child," is a beautiful poem written to a young girl. The narrator of the poem notices the girl's youthful innocence, and cannot help but think of the future pains and heartaches she will...