Gerard Manley Hopkins’ Terrible Sonnet poems I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark, Not Day, Patience, hard thing!, and My own Heart let me more have pity on portray depression, isolation, and self-imposed spiritual imprisonment brought on by urban...
Gerard Manley Hopkins’ Terrible Sonnets express spiritual exhaustion, vocational failure, and psychological terror caused by modern urban life. The poems No Worst, There is None and [Carrion Comfort], indicate that Hopkins feared his own...
Gerard Manley Hopkins’ Terrible Sonnets reflect despair over urban decay, human degeneracy, and the destruction of nature rather than a crisis of faith in God. Draw from Hopkins’ letters, poems, and biographies, and examine how Victorian city...