God's Grandeur
Analysis
- Gerard Manley Hopkins
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God's Grandeur is composed by an English poet G.M. Hopkins
who is regarded as the ardent follower of the almighty God. It is a sonnet
similar to the religious song. In this poem, the poet sings the glory of god.
He says that God is powerful and popular. The poem is based on the concept that
god is kind enough to all human being and is always imparting love, compassion
and protection despite the human being's rubbish behavior towards him. He says
that God is omnipresent, omniscent and omnipotent and he is all loving, all
inspiring and all forgiving to all earthly beings.
The poem is divided into two parts. In the first part, he
explores the greatness of god. He says, that in this visible world, the
existence of seen and unseen creatures or things are possible due to God's
desire. Being the father of all, the God has filled this world with his
greatness that has been enriching it. He compares the greatness of the god with
shining brightness that comes from shaking of gold and the oozing of oil. He
means a greatness of God is glittering like gold and being greater and greater
like oozing of oil. He says though God is invisible, his greatness is found
everywhere. But he wonders why the modern people are selfish not to care about
god’s grace. He says those human beings are destroying the world doing
different worldly activities running after the money. For centuries, they have
been getting birth and dying without any care of God’s grace. They don’t feel
the nature of soil because of shoes as they don’t realize the existence of that
invisible power of god. They are pursuing the worldly activities without any
thoughts of god’s will and without any fear of god’s anger. The world has been
degraded day by day due to the hard work and the commercial activities of human
beings that are purposed to gain the worldly things. The world bears the marks
of human being’s dirt and gives out the bad smell of them. The world has lost
all its natural beauty.
But the poet says though human beings respect him or not,
the existence of god cannot be destroyed. He claims that the nature can never
be spent. It is still fresh and is being freshened on and on by the grace of
god. He wishes its freshness continue. He believes that due to the freshness
that lies in its core, everything gets renewed. Similarly, once the sun sets in
the west living the world dark behind. It again rises in the morning making it
bright. Same like once the bird gives birth to the new babies, with new wings
to live on this world and breed them with its warm love, we find the nature
renewing itself time and again letting us enjoy it freely.
Central idea of the poem
The poem ‘God’s Grandeur’ composed by G.M. Hopkins is like a
religious song dedicated to the God where the poet has sung the glory of God
exhibiting various explanations and examples. He says that the God is
omnipresent, omniscient and omnipotent. The poet further explains that the existences
of seen and unseen creatures or things are possible due to the God’s desire. He
compares the greatness of the God with shining brightness that comes from
shaking of gold and the oozing of oil. In the poem, the poet tells that being
the father of all, the God has filled this world with his greatness that has been
enriching it. He adds that the system of life runs on the desire of god. Today,
human beings are slowly ignoring the grace of god. They are found totally dependent
and running after the worldly things. They are busy working for their living.
The modern advancement in the technological field has influenced the human
life. The artificial matters are attracting the humans. The worldly things, the
toil of humans and desire to live a modern life are taking humans away from the
spiritual world due to which men are unaware of the greatness of god. Above
all, the unsatisfactory nature of men towards their achievement and the
continuous change in their destiny are making men unaware of the greatness of
god.
Despite this fact, the poet adds that God is kind enough to
all human beings and is always imparting love, compassion and protection. The
god is all loving, all inspiring and all forgiving to all the earthly beings.
Though humans respect him or not, the existence of god cannot be destroyed. The
poet claims that nature can never be spent. It is still fresh and is being
freshened on and on by the grace of god. The parental love and care is also the
greatness of god. When a life ends, the other takes birth to fill the place and
this process is continued as the glory of god. Thus, the glory of god is seen everywhere and every time throughout the never ending chain of life.
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