God's Graneur

God's Grandeur
By: Gerard Manley Hopkins
In the first stanza, the beginning line states "the world is charged with the grandeur of God," I feel that Hopkins is comparing God's grandeur to an electrical force. In line two, "like shining from a shook foil," describes how momentarily the world can see his greatness like when an electric current strikes a piece of metal, you can't see the current until it strikes. Given these clear, strong proofs of God's presence in the world, Hopkins asks us in line 4, how it is that humans fail to notice ("reck") God's divine authority ("his ro...