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This essay examines the ecological content and significance of nature poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins. It starts with examining the views of Ignatius Loyola in terms of the man-and-nature relationship in a theological context, from which Hopkins develops his own idea of how nature serves to form a salvific vision for humans. On this basis, the essay reviews and analyzes four of his nature poems, which represent and support his ecological views of nature and humans. From this analysis, it is suggested that Hopkins' nature poems embody several focal ideas which modern-day ecocriticism involves: nature as a subjective entity, nature as a tragic figure, and nature as an essential for human existence. In conclusion, the essay argues that in Hopkins nature and humans are not in a mutually exclusive relationship but in an ecologically-linked subjective relationship of interplay through which each serves to fulfill the divine purpose for the other.