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Choose two of Hopkins’ poems, which seem to you to represent different moods and look at the way he looks at his relationship with God when he is feeling deeply depressed and when he is feeling full of praise
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Choose two of Hopkins' poems, which seem to you to represent different moods and look at the way he looks at his relationship with God when he is feeling deeply depressed and when he is feeling full of praise Gerard Manley Hopkins was a 19th Century Roman Catholic Priest who wrote poems, and mainly sonnets. His poems surrounded nature or his own misery and usually relating to how he was feeling about God. 'Pied Beauty' and '42'are two poems that represent different moods but both come back to his religion. 42 This poem is somewhat gloomy and depressed. No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief, More pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder wring. Comforter, where, where is your comforting? Mary, mother of us, where is your relief? My cries heave, herds- long: huddle in a main, a chief Woe, world-sorrow; on an age-old anvil wince and sing - Then lull, then leave off,...
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