Analysis of the Poem The Wreck of Deutschland by Gerald Manley Hopkins

SS Deutschland is an iron passenger liner of the Norddeutscher Lloyd series which is the first flight from Bremen to New York. On December 4, 1875, Germany traveled with 123 immigrants from Bremerhaven to New York. The weather condition of the ship was awful; a snowstorm hit an area near the Kentish Knock ship, Kent and the Essex coast of England. The German crew tried to retreat but failed when the pressure ruptured the German propeller.

In the mid 1800s, a very spiritual poet was born. Gerard Manley Hopkins was born on 28th July 1844 to Manly and Catherine (Smith) Hopkins, the first child of nine children (Drabble 473). His parents were High Church Anglicans and his father last year published a large number of poems (Drabble 473). He was appointed a pastor of the Jesuits who wrote a beautiful poem full of harmony with nature. In most cases, Hopkins' poetry was published after the death of 1889. Five years before Hopkins' death, he wrote six "terrible" sonnets that revealed their inner torture and separation from God (Davi 86). These poems were written by Hopkins as a professor at Dublin College College (Drabble 474). Hopkins' sonnet shows "mild pain" caused by his mental pain

Gerald Manley Hopkins is always fascinated by the individuality of personal thinking and experience. As W. H. Gardner explains, Hopkins' ideal is poetry and art work, which is "very beautiful." He uses the language as a means to immerse himself in the feeling as much as possible; awe, surprise, disappointment, confusion, alienation, certainty and doubt. Some of the great literary works prosper in the voice of independent, other, and sometimes intentional anemic stories, but Hopkins announces his poem throughout his existence, shows the purest desire, The most expressive belief His perceptualism is revealed in the original metaphor such as "yellow-yellow candle" and "vivid discoloration". Although he is widely categorized as "poet of nature", "mood poet" is a wider more accurate term.