... on the relationship between man and nature. Even though the relationships differ between poems, they both focus on the misguided view of beauty and perfection. The misconception of beauty is that perfection is beautiful; however, the speakers of Sonnet 130 and Pied Beauty compare and praise objects/characteristics that normally go unnoticed. In Sonnet 130, Shakespeare states that "My mistress' eyes are nothing like ... the sun; "and in Pied Beauty, the speaker praises God for "dappled things,"" two comments typically held contrary to the belief of beauty. Conventionally, one would hear ...

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... praise towards god, however they express their emotions in very different ways. I believe that the writer of God's Will for You and Me did a better job than the writer of Pied Beauty. According to Perrine, Pied Beauty is a bad poem. The poem Pied Beauty seems to be very didactic. The writer is trying to preach to you to praise God because of things such as the ... beauty of nature. The writer is putting forth the idea that all things are subject to change and that no matter how they change there is beauty to be found. However the poem ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... empathise. Yet for all his innovation and disregard of convention, Hopkins' goal it seems was always to bring poetry closer to the character of natural, living speech. Poems such as "Pied Beauty" by Hopkins seem to reject ponderous rhythm and instead deliberately create a light and skipping effect by joining words and phrases together unusually: "For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow ... lines together in a musical cycle. Unlike traditional Victorian poets, Hopkins uses this repetition of words to build images that are used to crystallise a thought or idea. For example, again in "...

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• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... No, not take interest; not, as you would say, Directly int' rest; mark what Jacob did: When Laban and himself were compromis' d That all the eanlings which were streak'd and pied Should fall as Jacob's hire, the ewes, being rank, In end of autumn turned to the rams; And when the work of generation was Between these woolly breeders in the ... is a man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! In form and moving, how express and admirable! In action, how like an angel! In apprehension, how like a god! The beauty of the world! The paragon of animals! Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2. 2.3.2 Goo...

• Word Count: 3142
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: High School