GOD’S GRANDEUR
--Gerard Manley Hopkins
What is the central idea of the poem “God’s Grandeur”?
“God’s Grandeur” is basically a praise poem dedicated to the magnificence and glory of God in the world. The poem illustrates how the world is filled with God’s creative energy that keeps the world running and gives it its present form, and how humans lack this awareness of God’s power that pervades the world and continue to exploit it by corrupting it with their interest for commerce. Yet, the poem reassures the readers that despite humans’ insensitive treatment of the world, nature is never exhausted and that there is immense “freshness deep down things.” And, despite the apparent dark cloak that hides the world temporarily, the world tears the cloak apart to shine through because of the real and immediate presence of God that oversees everything.
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