Gods Grandeur

“The world is charged with the grandeur of god”

the world in every aspect is filled with gods presence and creation.

“Shining from shook foil”

Like shaking foil to the light, it creates beautiful fragments that shine and are seen all around us. Like through birds and sunsets.

“Reck his rod”

Signifies gods power, like he holds a great staff ‘(rod’) he symbolises universal authority and Hopkins wants to know why people go against god.like we are unwilling to turn away from sin.

“Generations have trod, have trod, have trod”

For generations now mankind have treated the world with carelessness and contempt.

“Bleared, smeared”

Describing words for something dirty, referencing to the seared trade.

“Nature is never spent”

Even after all that nature has been through, it will never tire. It will always regenerate and replenish the world.

“the last off the black West went…Oh,Morning at the brown brink eastward, springs”

Even though the sun will set and darkness will come. The sun will always rise again? The darkness represents humans destruction in the world and the sunrise represents god and his nurture and care replenishing the world from our footsteps.