The Wreck of the (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Gerard Manley Hopkins
- First Published: 1918
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry, Narrative poetry, Meditation
- Subjects: Suffering, Nineteenth century, God, England or English people, Shipwrecks, Catholics or Catholic Church, Germany or German people, Monasteries, monks, or monasticism, Convents or nunneries, Nuns
Places Discussed
*Deutschland. Ship whose 1875 sinking caused the deaths of five Franciscan nuns to whom Hopkins dedicates this poem. Also the German-language name for Germany, “Deutschland” is, in Hopkins’s words, “double a desperate name!” because it is both the ship on which the nuns perished and the country that passed the anti-Roman Catholic laws that expelled the nuns from their homeland and forced them to undertake their ill-fated voyage.
Hopkins’s poem re-creates the sufferings of the ship’s passengers after their ship struck a sandbar near...
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