Who is God Gerard Hopkins Explores

Who is God? A theme that Gerard Hopkins seems to have spent his life exploring and attempting to answer through his poetry. By exploring nature around him, Hopkins adds insight to God’s relationship with and essential role to man-- that of creator and redeemer. In his poem “Windhover” we see a prayer to God as the all-powerful being in which we attempt to give ourselves fully over to-- and through the observance of a …

…over creation and sacrifice for it. Bibliography Works Cited: Hopkins, Gerard Manley. “The Windhover.” Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry and Drama, Seventh Edition. Ed. X.J. Kennedy, Dana Gioia. New York: Longman, 1999. 1084 Hopkins, Gerard Manley. “God’s Granduer.” Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry and Drama, Seventh Edition. Ed. X.J. Kennedy, Dana Gioia. New York: Longman, 1999. 822 The Bible: King James Version Lecture Notes, English 102, Carl Eby, Ph.D: University of South Carolina. March 14, 2000.