Poetry can be expressed as an overflow of emotion in which there is no other form to express it than through writing. What we think and feel can be conveyed on paper. It looks at parts of life and things we can't explain. Looking at 20th-century writers in Europe, we see their focus on war, God, and the meaning of things. In the poem Pied Beauty, by Gerard Manley Hopkins, he looks at the beauty given by God. He describes the poem looking at “…spotted things…”. He then continues to provide us with details of the spotted things that come to mind. These things include cows, trout, a bird's wing, and the landscape around it. In the second stanza he continues to look at the "spotted things", but in more detail. He talks about how strange they are, but also gentle and fast, and how everything is connected to God. He points out that strange things that people might not find attractive are actually beautiful because they are made by God. He ends the poem by focusing on the power and superiority of God, so we should “praise” Him. It can be inferred that Hopkins thinks that people look at strange things in nature with the wrong frame of mind. We should view all things as beautiful because God creates them. AE Housman, in Terence, It's a Stupid Thing, also tries to send a message. It uses an allegory or a systematic set of symbols wrapped in a story to achieve a central theme. Reading the poem, it is easy to infer that he is upset by this question. He claims that poetry is for intellectuals and those who use their brains, rather than those who just want to have fun and drink. He writes in “sad poetry” in order to develop tolerance towards scandalous misfortune. He does not write to incite people... middle of paper ... the poetry community (who loved writing about the value and glory of war) wrote about the reality of war because they have everyone experiences it. he. Hardy also focused on the idea of ​​war, but not as much as the others. Above all, it answers the question of why. This question is answered with a simple “because I’m told,” which Hardy doesn’t like. Housman mentions the idea of ​​society and how they view poetry in the wrong perspective. Hopkins also agrees, because he believes that society views the world in an incorrect way. Both believe that society should be more attentive to the “real” beauty of things. Withering in nature or in poetry, both must prepare us for the life we ​​must come, even the bad things. Works Cited Brown, Robert A., comp. Late British Literature: A Course Reader for Rice Memorial High School. Np: Robert A. Brown, 2014. PDF.