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Beautiful Piety
Summary: Gerard Manley Hopkin's style of writing in his poem, "Pied Beauty."
Gerard Manley Hopkins was a meticulous man who became a Jesuit priest and worked hard at spreading his faith in Roman Catholicism. Hopkins was acknowledged for his religious themes as well as his unique poetic techniques. Hopkins's poems consisted of what he called `sprung rhythm' as well as assonance, alliteration, and internal rhyme. Hopkins often resembled Romantic poets with his affection for nature and aim for individuality. With his strongly distinct language and eccentric forms, Hopkins's work was often regarded as a twentieth-century poet's writing rather than a Victorian poet's. In his other works such as "Hurrahing in Harvest" or "The Wreck of the Deutschland", Hopkins's emphasis on idiosyncratic literature was illustrated in his depictions of nature in which wild images replaced regular patterns of beauty. In "Pied Beauty", Hopkins's "medievalism influenced his typological as well as his typical mode of artistic representation..." (Bump 83). In this poem, Hopkins...
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