God's Grandeur, a pertrarchan sonnet written by Gerard Manley Hopkins, is about the grace of God. In the first octave, Hopkins plays out a tone of despair. He talks about how the world, which God made, has become dirty and corrupt from the presence of mankind. Hopkins also uses imagery to show that humans have separated themselves from God and are no longer close to God. The question "why don't men now change their ways"' is raised because, as the poem says, the world awaits God's return; and yet, no answer is given to this question. Then in the sestet, a tone of hope is introduced. Hopkins abandons the hopeless talk and says that there will always be beauty in the world and that God will never leave us or forsake us. Then in the last two lines he explains that the grandeur of God is God's...