GERARD MANLY HOPKINS

Gerard manly Hopkins was an English poet, Roman Catholic convert and Jesuit priest who due to his large accumulated fame is considered by different readers as the greatest Victorian poet of religion, of nature, or of melancholy. he was a inventor who led experimental explorations in use of prosody and imagery in a period of traditional  verse but because his style of writing so much differed from those of his era , his best poems were not accepted for publication during his lifetime only in later period their worth was recognized.

    
Pied Beauty

Glory be to God for dappled things— 

For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; 

For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; 

Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings; 

Landscape plotted and pieced—fold, fallow, and plough; 

And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim. 

All things counter, original, spare, strange; 

Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?) 

With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim; 

He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change: Praise Him

Summery

In this poem Hopkins says that we should glorify God because he has given us dappled, spotted, freckled, checkered, speckled, things he further says that We should praise God because of the skies with two colors, like a two-colored cow. And the little reddish dots on the side of trout. And the way fallen chestnuts look like red coals in a fire. And the blended colors of the wings of a finch. And also landscapes which are divided up by us into farming plots. And for all the jobs that humans do. 

At first  this may seem strange that Hopkins who is always hailed as genius is telling us hail god because god has given all these things which at first sight does not seem important but here is where the beauty of Hopkins poetry lies he is telling us this because according to him everything created by god is beautiful for doesn't matter how common or strange it may seem.