“God’s Grandeur” by Gerard Manley Hopkins. A Poetic Path into the Depths of Contemplation
The present paper concerns the question of how Christian contemplation, in the sense of a simple loving gaze on God and His works, could be prepared and supported by poetry by using the properties of poetic speech in the field of semantics, syntax as well as sound effects. The object is God’s Grande...
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The Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow
2023-06-01
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| description | The present paper concerns the question of how Christian contemplation, in the sense of a simple loving gaze on God and His works, could be prepared and supported by poetry by using the properties of poetic speech in the field of semantics, syntax as well as sound effects. The object is God’s Grandeur, a brilliant sonnet by Gerard Manley Hopkins, a poet, priest, Jesuit, a man of spiritual passion. Its analysis along with interpretation, in terms of both poetics and spiritual theology, will allow us to see how aesthetic contemplation works and could bear fruit for a contemporary man’s relation to himself or herself, to the world as well as most importantly to God, the source of created goodness.
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| spelling | doaj-art-45ef81e6292b4f288819d7ffa5413d6a2025-02-11T22:58:34ZengThe Pontifical University of John Paul II in KrakowPolonia Sacra1428-56732391-65752023-06-0127210.15633/ps.27202“God’s Grandeur” by Gerard Manley Hopkins. A Poetic Path into the Depths of ContemplationMarcin Godawa0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5675-4272The Pontifical University of John Paul II in KrakowThe present paper concerns the question of how Christian contemplation, in the sense of a simple loving gaze on God and His works, could be prepared and supported by poetry by using the properties of poetic speech in the field of semantics, syntax as well as sound effects. The object is God’s Grandeur, a brilliant sonnet by Gerard Manley Hopkins, a poet, priest, Jesuit, a man of spiritual passion. Its analysis along with interpretation, in terms of both poetics and spiritual theology, will allow us to see how aesthetic contemplation works and could bear fruit for a contemporary man’s relation to himself or herself, to the world as well as most importantly to God, the source of created goodness. http://czasopisma.upjp2.edu.pl/poloniasacra/article/view/4655poetic speechacquired contemplationaesthetic contemplationnaturemanGod |
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| title | “God’s Grandeur” by Gerard Manley Hopkins. A Poetic Path into the Depths of Contemplation |
| title_full | “God’s Grandeur” by Gerard Manley Hopkins. A Poetic Path into the Depths of Contemplation |
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| title_short | “God’s Grandeur” by Gerard Manley Hopkins. A Poetic Path into the Depths of Contemplation |
| title_sort | god s grandeur by gerard manley hopkins a poetic path into the depths of contemplation |
| topic | poetic speech acquired contemplation aesthetic contemplation nature man God |
| url | http://czasopisma.upjp2.edu.pl/poloniasacra/article/view/4655 |
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