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Gerard Manley Hopkins
Jason Platko Mrs. Pena English 28 May, 1996
Everyone is destined to be great for a moment in their lives. For Gerard
Manley Hopkins this was difficult. Gerard was a poet that came way before his
time and people didn't realize the power he had with words.
Gerard Manley Hopkins was one of the most ori ....
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entered as a Jesuit he wrote no poems. although the though of crossing the two
vocations constantly crossed his mind. Then in 1875 he told his superior how
moved he felt by the wreck of the Deutschland, a ship carrying five nuns exiled
from Germany. His superior expressed his wish that someone would write a poem
about it. Hopkins having his motive wrote his first major work. He sent his
poem to long time friend Robert Bridges who was put off by the poem and called
it ''presumptuous juggelry.'' But Hopkins stood his ground, knowing he had
something of worth. His poem brought to ....
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