Hopkins is a masterful poet, one of the greatest in the English language. So I had to pause to read this article on Slate.com just out of curiosity.
What's strange to me is the author's contrasting of those two poems for the purposes of the article, because it's easier to say what's different about those works than to say what's similar. The subject matter is entirely contrasting, the authors' perspectives utterly different, the messages and themes completely at odds with each other. One may as well take an apple and an orange and list all the ways that one is not like the other although they are both fruit. Thomas is commenting on the ironies of class and Hopkins is struggling with God, for chrissakes.
Not saying that the author of the article doesn't make some interesting points about the poems, but I'm wondering why he chose to contrast these two to begin with. That is all.
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