God’s Grandeur
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"God’s Grandeur" is a renowned sonnet by Gerard Manley Hopkins that celebrates the presence of divine glory in the natural world while lamenting humanity’s destructive impact on it.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| God’s Grandeur canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5686056 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: God’s Grandeur Context triple: [Gerard Manley Hopkins, notableWork, God’s Grandeur]
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A.
Clarel
Clarel is a long, philosophical narrative poem by Herman Melville that explores faith, doubt, and pilgrimage in the Holy Land.
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B.
Glanmore Sonnets
Glanmore Sonnets is a sequence of autobiographical sonnets by Seamus Heaney reflecting on rural life, memory, and creative renewal at his retreat in Glanmore, County Wicklow.
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C.
A Psalm of Life
"A Psalm of Life" is a widely anthologized 1838 poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that urges readers to live actively, purposefully, and optimistically in the face of life's brevity and challenges.
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D.
Fern Hill
Fern Hill is a celebrated lyrical poem by Dylan Thomas that nostalgically reflects on the innocence and transience of childhood.
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E.
The Lamb
The Lamb is a small uninhabited rocky islet in the Firth of Forth, Scotland, known for its seabird colonies and proximity to the island of Fidra.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: God’s Grandeur Target entity description: "God’s Grandeur" is a renowned sonnet by Gerard Manley Hopkins that celebrates the presence of divine glory in the natural world while lamenting humanity’s destructive impact on it.
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A.
Clarel
Clarel is a long, philosophical narrative poem by Herman Melville that explores faith, doubt, and pilgrimage in the Holy Land.
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B.
Glanmore Sonnets
Glanmore Sonnets is a sequence of autobiographical sonnets by Seamus Heaney reflecting on rural life, memory, and creative renewal at his retreat in Glanmore, County Wicklow.
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C.
A Psalm of Life
"A Psalm of Life" is a widely anthologized 1838 poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that urges readers to live actively, purposefully, and optimistically in the face of life's brevity and challenges.
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D.
Fern Hill
Fern Hill is a celebrated lyrical poem by Dylan Thomas that nostalgically reflects on the innocence and transience of childhood.
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E.
The Lamb
The Lamb is a small uninhabited rocky islet in the Firth of Forth, Scotland, known for its seabird colonies and proximity to the island of Fidra.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
poem
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sonnet ⓘ |
| anthologizedIn | collections of English religious poetry ⓘ |
| author | Gerard Manley Hopkins ⓘ |
| containsConcept |
inscape
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instress ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| criticReception | widely regarded as one of Hopkins’s finest sonnets ⓘ |
| firstLine | The world is charged with the grandeur of God; ⓘ |
| form | Italian sonnet ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Catholic theology
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Hopkins’s Jesuit vocation ⓘ Romantic nature poetry ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryDevice |
alliteration
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assonance ⓘ enjambment ⓘ imagery ⓘ metaphor ⓘ paradox ⓘ simile ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Victorian era ⓘ |
| meter | primarily iambic pentameter ⓘ |
| movement |
Jesuit poetry
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Religious poetry ⓘ |
| notableImage |
crushed foil that gathers to a greatness
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the Holy Ghost brooding over the world ⓘ the brown brink eastward springs ⓘ the last lights off the black West ⓘ the world is charged like shining foil ⓘ |
| octaveFunction | presents problem of human disregard for God and nature ⓘ |
| publicationStatusDuringAuthorLife | not widely published in Hopkins’s lifetime ⓘ |
| religiousOrderContext | Society of Jesus ⓘ |
| religiousTradition | Christianity ⓘ |
| rhymeScheme | abbaabba cdcdcd ⓘ |
| sestetFunction | offers resolution through enduring presence of the Holy Ghost ⓘ |
| structure | octave and sestet ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
God’s presence in the world
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effects of human labor and industry ⓘ |
| theme |
divine glory in nature
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humanity’s destructive impact on nature ⓘ industrialization and its effects ⓘ relationship between God and the natural world ⓘ spiritual renewal ⓘ |
| tone |
lamenting
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reverent ⓘ ultimately hopeful ⓘ |
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Subject: God’s Grandeur Description of subject: "God’s Grandeur" is a renowned sonnet by Gerard Manley Hopkins that celebrates the presence of divine glory in the natural world while lamenting humanity’s destructive impact on it.
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