In this poem, Hopkins is using day and night to parallel the saved and unsaved people in this world. I think one point in this poem is that we live in a dark, sinful world and the argument could be made that he cries out to God, but that God dos not hear him. Hopkins is pointing to the Biblical truth that we live in a fallen world and that is weight heavily on him. I think he is showing his frustration that it seems this way because he is not experiencing the light and God's answers. However, I wanted to weigh in on a poem that I did not grasp fully, so feel free to add to my understandings.
I commented on Francesca's.
I think you're right. He does seem to be crying out to God in a place of darkness. He himself is saved, but he even compares himself to a lost person in the last stanza, because of the amount of darkness he is experiencing.
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