Abstract This paper presents a short biography of Gerard Manley Hopkins, followed by an analysis of his sonnet, "Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord". The author notes that none of Hopkins work were published until after his death at age 44 from typhoid fever. The paper relates that he gave up writing for a while after he became a Jesuit priest and destroyed all his earlier work.
From the Paper "Gerard Manley Hopkins was born in Stratford in England on July... . He was the son of a prosperous and artistic family and studied Classics at Balliol College, Oxford in ... . In two years after reading John Henry Newman's ... "
"Matthew Arnold, in "Dover Beach" (1848?), and Gerard Manley Hopkins, in "God's Grandeur" (1877), are both concerned with the question of the presence of God or religious faith in the world.
2,250 words (approx. 9 pages), 4 sources, 1999, $ 79.95
Abstract "Matthew Arnold, in "Dover Beach" (1848?), and Gerard Manley Hopkins, in "God's Grandeur" (1877), are both concerned with the question of the presence of God or religious faith in the world.
From the Paper "Matthew Arnold, in "Dover Beach" (1848?), and Gerard Manley Hopkins, in "God's Grandeur" (1877), are both concerned with the question of the presence of God or religious faith in the world. Neither poet actually asks a question, however, as Arnold sees the "Sea of Faith" withdrawing from the world, while Hopkins enthusiastically perceives God's presence in everything around him. Both poets, however, see human failure to appreciate God as part of the problem of their own times. But where Arnold sees the only option as withdrawal from a world with neither "certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain", Hopkins regrets the blindness of human beings who have come to dissociate themselves from God, even though He is always there in the world. A comparison of the two poems demonstrates not only the difference in their views of religion but the manner in which these ..."
Abstract This paper examines how the new age of scientific certainty in the 19th and 20th centuries generated feelings of doubt about Christianity and its validity. In particular, it looks at how, amid the industrialization and the progressive transformation of the world, modernist writers, such as Gerard Manley Hopkins and William Butler Yeats, explored their beliefs and faith in a higher power. It analyzes how Hopkins's poem, ?God's Grandeur,? celebrates the greatness of God and Christianity, while Yeats's "The Second Coming" depicts the chaos of his time and questions the role of Christianity and the Christian values of the 20th century. It shows how the poems of both Hopkins and Yeats acknowledge the presence of a higher power through religious allusions, imagery, and the context in which the poems were written.
From the Paper "Understanding the meaning behind Yeats "Second Coming" entails knowledge of the context, which illuminates the speakers? quest for a higher power. The poem is dated 1919, a year after the end of WW1, the war that came to be known as "The Great War" (Longman, 925), and characterized by its chaos, atrocities and complete destruction. The speakers? says, "Things fall apart; the center cannot hold" (3), referring not only to the global conflicts of his time, but also to the advance in technology that mechanized warfare and led to a frightening number of deaths (Longman, 926). In addition, advance in science not only contradicted the traditional understanding of the universe, but also contradicted religious beliefs, hence the feeling of things falling apart, a sense of loss of control and the imagery of the spiral of the center unable to hold."
Abstract This paper demonstrates how Marianne Moore shared the same central concerns as male modernists such as Gerard Manley Hopkins, but through very different techniques and structures.
Examines the science and religious beliefs of Victorian society as exemplified in the period's literature by Robert Browning and Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Abstract This paper explains that, even in the early 19th century, there were few ideas about a confrontation between science and religion; generally, religion and scientific study were seen to be in accordance with each other. The author points out that Darwin's evolution theory is the turning point in this relation between religion and science. Many theologians saw Darwin's theory as an open threat to Christianity; whereas, scientists began to see religion as a threat to scientific thinking and approach. The paper highlights this dilemma through the writings of Robert Browning, whose shifting religious views personified the challenges to thinkers of the era, and Gerard Manley Hopkins, who was a significant icon upholding the tenets of Christian faith and morality.
From the Paper "Everett (2006) opines that Browning's shifting religious views personified the challenges that thinkers of the era were subject to. Although Browning approached this issue, there have been differing interpretations of his words and views. The manner of his dramatic monologue also serves to make a clear-cut verdict difficult. Such was the strength of Browning's characters and their monologues that it would often be unclear whether the beliefs presented in the monologue were his own or not."
Abstract This eleven-page undergraduate paper compares and contrasts the Gerard Manley Hopkins poem "The Lantern out of Doors" with the Thomas Hardy poem, "After the Journey." The author analyzes the poems in detail and discusses the style and theme of them both.
Abstract This paper describes and compares the form, style, poetic techniques, and effectiveness of four poems. The poems, Hopkins's "As Kingfishers Catch Fire, Dragonflies Draw Flame" and "Carrion Comfort" , and Yeats's "An Irish Airman Foresees his Death" and "Sailing to Byzantium", are considered in detail, and their strengths and weaknesses are described. In addition, the poems are rated as either effective or ineffective.
From the Paper "This first line describes a strong wind removing the chaff from the wheat, so the grain can be seen. This represents how the suffering may have been positive, in that it pushed away the outer layer to reveal the poet's good character. The poet then asks who he should cheer. First, he wonders if he should cheer God when God has made him suffer. Then he wonders if he should cheer himself for enduring. The poet does not find an answer to this question, with the poem ending with him still wondering whether he can thank God for making him suffer. Considering that the entire poem is a narrative of the poet's journey out of depression, there is a suggestion that at some point later in time the poet will resolve this issue and manage to look back thankfully on what has happened. Overall then, this is a poem that offers hope."
Abstract This paper presents an analysis of 19th century poet, Gerald Manley Hopkins's poem, "Spring and Fall". It focuses on how the author's view of death was influenced by his Christian faith and discusses the motif of separation in the work.
From the Paper "The loss of life has always been a perplexing and mysterious notion for human beings. Young and old alike are constantly reminded of their own mortality, and this awareness increases as their life goes on. The 19th century poet Gerald Manley Hopkins, reflects on this difference in his lyric poem "Spring and Fall". In it, he addresses the various degrees of separation that occur on the path to self-consciousness."
Abstract This paper discusses how much of the imagery in Gerald Manley Hopkins' poetry is written in bad-taste and how much of this bad-taste involves the sexual urge in some way. Through an analysis of some of his poems, it looks at how Hopkins was phonocentric poet and how it is possible to trace moments of bad-taste in specific, recurrent sound-patterns. It examines the bad-taste in Hopkins? consistent allusion to the pleasurable act in terms of his idiolect, his poetics and the running tropes that facilitate bad-taste in his poetry. It concludes with the idea that Hopkins was, indeed, a poet of Baroque bad taste.
From the Paper "In the final line of the third stanza, the two modes come together in the word "burn", which matches the brevity of the b with the dragging of the urn. The unification of these sounds is significant. It reveals the word "urn", in "burn" ? as in a vessel used for preserving the ashes of the dead; this links with "ash", and picks up on "beadbonny", wherein "bonny" becomes "bony". (Perhaps the "bead" in "beadbonny" picks up on the Old English form of the word, meaning prayer?). This layer of meaning is only uncovered if one follows closely the sound patterns in the poem. "
Abstract While Alfred, Lord Tennyson's "In Memoriam" and Gerald Manley Hopkins's sonnets appear to be complete opposites in terms of their development, both poets have a common theme involving a firm connection to God running throughout their works. The paper shows that, specifically, within the hopeful parts of their works, both poets relate to God through the same type of philosophy and dispel newly found scientific reasoning that the existence of man is but a meaningless and random occurrence using science's own language. It shows, too, that in the doubtful parts of their works, both connect to God through feeling him in their pain and woe.
Paper Outline:
I. Introduction
II. Hopkins's Philosophy in "God's Grandeur" and "As Kingfishers Catch Fire"
III. Tennyson's Philosophy in "In Memoriam" Part 95 and 118
IV. Hopkins Direct Connection to God through Suffering in "Carrion Comfort"
V. Tennyson's Connection to God through Suffering in Parts 1 and 124 of "In Memoriam"
VI. Conclusion
From the Paper "This revelation (described by Tennyson in the footnote) is instated by the "repeating [of] my own name two or three times" similar to Hopkins's idea of instress, Tennyson describes entering a state of intense "consciousness of individuality" where he comes to a realization of man's place in the world as his individuality "seemed to dissolve and fade away into boundless being" (pg. 95, footnote 1). This boundless being matches closely with Hopkins's idea that when looking at any object's (including one's own) inscape a person sees God's plan and purpose for that object within the scheme of the time and the universe."
Abstract This paper is a review of "Black Mass, The Irish Mob, The Boston FBI, and a Devil's Deal" written by Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill. The paper describes the investigation in the book of two notorious criminals of South Boston's Irish ghetto, Jim 'Whitey' Bulger and his brother, Billy Bulger, where one gets arrested and the other remains on the FBI's 'top ten' list of wanted criminals.
From the Paper "A Review of Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill's Black Mass, The Irish Mob, The Boston FBI, and a Devil's Deal. (New York: PublicAffairs, 2000). In 1988, the authors set out to investigate two notorious criminals of South Boston's Irish ghetto, Jim 'Whitey' Bulger and his brother, Billy Bulger. Whitey Bulger was Boston's most powerful crime boss, and his brother had been made President of the Massachusetts Senate in 1978, both men in collusion those of similar background inside Boston's FBI that permitted Whitey Bulger's career to continue. In 1994, Bill Bulger and several near the top of Whitey Bulger's organization were arrested. Whitey Bulger disappeared and has since been on the FBI's 'top ten' list of wanted criminals. Black Mass will interest readers exploring an environmental approach to criminality in its description of a practically tribal south Boston Irish culture."
Abstract The paper relates that Gerald Manley Hopkins' use of vocabulary, rhythm techniques and innovative poetry writing styles makes him one of the most influential poets in history. The paper explains Hopkins' innovations of sprung rhythm, his use of vocabulary and rhyme and his idea of 'inscape' and 'instress', two words to describe the inner nature of his poetry.
From the Paper "Gerald Manley Hopkins was born in Stratford, England in 1844. His father was a writer of poetry and technical books, so one can see where he got his unique gift of poetry. As a young boy, he already showed a great attraction to poetry, and he received many awards throughout his school career. His life had a great impact upon his poetry. He converted to Roman Catholic at the age of twenty-two, and was estranged from his family. He ended up burning many of his early poems because he felt poetry was not the proper selection for a serious religious man."
Abstract This research examines the streamlining and standardization of the existing enrollment system at Johns Hopkins University. The research is sets forth the features of the present JHU student enrollment and tracking information system and then discusses why the new system, centralized and driven by online-network technology, would be better than the present one. The research presents a strategy for justifying and implementing the transformation from a project-management standpoint, with a view toward assuring that the online system will satisfy the requirements of all user/stakeholders in the project (full-time students, part-time students, prospective and former students, faculty and administrative staff).
From the Paper "In Phillips's evolutionary model of a software upgrade project, the first phase of operations involves evaluating user needs. But in model Phillips describes does not capture an undertaking as far-reaching as the one envisioned by JHU, a multidepartmental, multitiered, multilocation enterprise (1999, pp. 283ff). We have also seen that PTE and SPSBE, to name two organizational entities, have made a significant investment in technology- and Internet-driven student recruitment and services. Department-specific needs may vary, but it is certain no department will want to relinquish current capabilities and access. The new system will have to elicit cooperation and collegiality if implementation is to proceed efficiently and apace."
A discussion of the use the sonnet form in the poems "Which Is Worse: My Real or Imagined Pain?" and "'When I Have Fears that I May Cease to Be" by Keats and Hopkins' 'No Worst; There Is None'".
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 1 source, 2002, $ 44.95
Abstract This paper explores how Keats and Hopkins use the sonnet form, and how the poems demonstrate different articulations of that form, as well as different articulations of a very similar subject matter.
Abstract This paper presents a detailed examination of a particular case and discusses the legal and ethical issues of that case. The writer uses the Ann Hopkins case and explores the many issues that impacted the case.
From the Paper "The need to examine ethical issues and legal issues in previous cases cannot be underscored. It is by studying such cases that businesses can fine tune and improve their future ethical and legal dilemmas. One case that provides an educational opportunities to future businesses is the Ann Hopkins Case. In this case Ann Hopkins devoted her career to helping build a more successful company. At Price Waterhouse she believed she was next in line to become partner. Several things led her to this belief. She was given many responsibilities, she was short listed for the next partner decision and she was qualified.
As the short list candidates moved closer to the top and potential partnership Hopkins suddenly found herself blacklisted without explanation. One of the partners decided not to support her nomination for the continued decision making process and another partner joined him in that withdrawal of support."
