Societies Neglect For God's Grandeur

Societies Neglect For God's Grandeur In Gerard Manley Hopkins' sonnet "God's Grandeur," the speaker is an omniscient observer of mankind -- probably Hopkins himself. He is speaking to man in an effort to help society realize the beauty in life. Hopkins senses several errors in his species. He believes society fails to recognize the grandeur of God and is content to tread the earth and waste vast resources. "God's Grandeur" appeals to the readers' sensitivity …

…toil; And wears man's smudge and shares man's smell: the soil Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod. LINES 9-12 And for all this, nature is never spent; There lives the dearest freshness deep down things; And though the last lights off the black West went Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward springs- LINES 13-14 Because the Holy Ghost over the bent World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.