1. Gerard Manley Hopkins
... the speaker. The poet is using accented metric when he counts the syllables, he is also using parallelism, personification, and a writing topos. In Gerard Manley Hopkins" poem the speaker appears to be a devoted religious man. In the poem the speaker is asking many difficult questions about the problem of evil in the ... is asking these hard questions, at the end surprisingly his loyalty is with God, he then turns to God with a prayer. The speaker in Gerard Manley Hopkins" poem and the poet himself has a very close metaphoric distance between them. The speaker is a man who devoted his l...
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- Grade Level: High School