Saturday, November 20, 2010

Can someone please help me with English literature?

';God's Grandeur';



The world is charged with the grandeur of God.

It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;1

It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil

Crushed.2 Why do men then now not reck his rod?3

Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; 5

And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;

And wears man's smudge and shares man's smell; the soil

Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.4



And for5 all this, nature is never spent; 6

There lives the dearest freshness deep down things; 10

And though the last lights off the black West went

Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs--

Because the Holy Ghost over the bent

World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.



the question is...





Explain how the thought of the last four lines of ';God's Grandeur'; is similar to Line 16 of Lyric 54 of Tennyson's ';In Memoriam'; and the last line of Shelley's ';Ode to the West Wind.';





Line 16 of Lyric 54 of Tennyson's ';In Memoriam';



Behold, we know not anything;

I can but trust that good shall fall

At last--far off--at last, to all,

And every winter change to spring.





Last line of Shelley's ';Ode to the West Wind.';



. . . O Wind,

If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?Can someone please help me with English literature?
they r all optimistic

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