“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch
The theme of individuality and showing your true nature is prominent in Whitman's poem "Song of Myself" and Ginsberg's poem "Howl." Both Ginsberg and Whitman believe that humans should not judge one another as it leads to the destruction of the best minds of the generation. God's creation is perfect, and humans should not mask their true personality to feel more accepted or in fear of judgement. Similarly, in the poem "Pied Beauty," Hopkins manages to portray his admiration of God by describing all of God's creations--the unity and variation in Nature and the beauty in all objects around humans. Hopkins states that even in the “fickle” and “freckled”, which humans perceive as ugliness, there is beauty. With the use of a rhetorical question “who knows how?," the poet portrays himself as mesmerized by God’s creations as God even managed to introduce beauty into what humans feel is ugly. The poet states that there are no flaws in God’s creations and its beauty is unchangeable, it “is past change”. He gives examples of objects with beauty, “swift, slow, sweet, sour, adazzle, dim”. These are all conflicting adjectives, which makes the readers feel that there is beauty in everything, even in all opposites.This makes the readers value what is around them and identify beauty in every object, even in what they would normally perceive as ugly, and praise God for all his wonderful creations.
-Aditya
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