Entertainment / Literature / Terrible Sonnets: In spite of the label, this phrase does not refer to poorly written sonnets. Gerard Manley Hopkins used the term 'terrible sonnets' to designate several of his later religious poems, in which he feels isolated from God. In this poems, his sense of individuality leads Hopkins to confront his solipsism--and react with despair (the dark night of the soul,' as described by St. Ignatius Loyola, the founder of the Jesuit order). The terrible sonnets contrast starkly with Hopkins' earlier religious poetry, which focus on the ecstatic joy of being in God's presence or God's creation. Sample terrible sonnets include Hopkins' 'Carrion Comfort,' 'No Worst, There Is None,' 'I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark, Not Day,' and 'Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord.'
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