Throughout the octave of his sonnet, "God's Grandeur", Hopkins uses the natural imagery to explore the Biblical acts of creation, fall of man, Christ's sacrifice, and his disgust of man's continuance in sin and destruction of nature to show just how unworthy of God's grace man is. Through the act of creation Hopkins establishes that God's power is absolute and ete

Through comparison of these poems we start to understand Hopkins development of ideas of the nature and roles of God. By using imagery from the natural world around him in these two works, the writer illuminates two essential roles -- creator and redeemer. Throughout "God's Grandeur "Hopkins explores both roles by using natural imagery to expound on the Biblical foundations of creation and salvation, as well as laments over man's oblivion to those precepts. Although the same thematic threads are woven through "The Windhover", we see a concentration on the redemptive role of God through Hopkin's ecstasy over Christ's dominion over creation and sacrifice for it.

rnal. "The world is charged with the grandeur of God." This speaks to the spark that started creation-- the charge that brought man and the diversity of nature into being. The spark is also like electricity, which produces light: "And God said, let their be light. And their was light." (Gen. 1:3,KJV) Adam's fall that set for the sinful nature of man: "Generations have trod, have trod, have trod," also resulted in God foreordained master plan of salvation for his lost creations - Christ the redeemer. In the Bible, Christ was compared to the light of the world, and later the Holy Spirit would be like tongues of fire "flames out/like shining from shook foil." This redeemer shed His blood for the fallen man of which Hopkins is writing, it oozed out of his body when crushed "like the ooze of oil." When oil was used as part of the symbolic ritual of atonement during Biblical times, it was actually a type or symbol for Christ's blood. In His sacrifice Christ atoned for mankind's sin. The writer's distressed tone emphasizes his disbelief that even in the face of this greatness men still do not respect and fear God, "Why do men then now not reck his rod." Hopkins ends the octave on a note of disgust that even after this great sacrifice mankind could still be more interested in material wealth and destruction of creation for profit than having a spiritual nature: "all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil." Hopkin's uses images of a destroyed nature to not only paint a bleak picture of sin, but also to symbolically speak to the barren spiritual state of man. "And wears man's smudge and shares man's smell: The soil/is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod." Man cannot feel a connection with God, through nature, because his feet are shod. In biblical times, shoes were removed on holy ground in reverence -- man is defiling the holy ground that God created.

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