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OpenStudy (anonymous):

some help me figure out my question . :(

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What the question

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Which phrase best expresses the theme of this sonnet? the mundaneness of human life contrasted with the divinity of nature devotion to a loved one despite opposition from the world appreciation of the beauty and blissful nature of the seasons the innocence of childhood contrasted with the corruption of adulthood Done God's Grandeur by Gerard Manley Hopkins The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod? Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil; And wears man's smudge and shares man's smell: the soil Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod. 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 — Because the Holy Ghost over the bent World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

I have no idea

OpenStudy (anonymous):

its hard

OpenStudy (anonymous):

very difficult give me time to think about it

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okay dude

OpenStudy (anonymous):

can you word it a little bit better?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

what do you mean by word

OpenStudy (anonymous):

The poem reflects Hopkins’s conviction that the physical world is like a book written by God, in which the attentive person can always detect signs of a benevolent authorship, and which can help mediate human beings’ contemplation of this Author.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

http://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/hopkins/section1.rhtml it is not B or D I would go with A The second quatrain within the octave describes the state of contemporary human life—the blind repetitiveness of human labor, and the sordidness and stain of “toil” and “trade.”

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