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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does line 10 say "Brute beauty and valour and act, oh, air, pride, plume" do "here" (line 9)?
2. Who is being referred to in line 10's "thee"?
3. What technique is employed in the poem's final two lines, "blue-bleak embers, ah my dear/ Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion"?
4. What does "shéer plód" mean (line 12)?
5. In lines 10 and 11, the speaker says that the fire "that breaks from thee" is a billion times "lovelier" and more what?
Short Essay Questions
1. What are the literal and figurative meanings of the poem's references to a "dauphin" and a "chevalier"?
2. What Christian paradox is expressed when the speaker refers to the bird as both a "minion" and a "dauphin" (lines 1-2)?
3. What is the relationship of the expression "in his riding/ Of the rolling level underneath him steady air" (lines 2-3) to the later reference to "the rein of a wimpling wing" (line 4)?
4. Describe the poetic form of "The Windhover."
5. How do the images in the last three lines support the idea that there is "no wonder" in the kestrel's fight (line 9)?
6. What is the meaning of the simile contained in lines 6 and 7: " As a skate's heel sweeps smooth on a bow-bend: the hurl and gliding/ Rebuffed the big wind"?
7. What makes a creature like the windhover an appropriate symbol for Christ?
8. What is a "windhover," and what characteristic of its flight is focused on in this poem?
9. Describe the relationship of the content in the poem's final six lines to the content in lines 1-8.
10. In "The Windhover," who is speaking, and what moves him to speak?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay that analyzes Hopkins's use of the sonnet form in "The Windhover." Describe the ways in which he adheres to expectations of the sonnet form and the ways in which he breaks these expectations. Show how his choice of the sonnet form supports meaning and how both his adherence to and departure from expectations add to the significance of his choice of form. Support your observations with both quoted and paraphrased evidence from "The Windhover." If you consult outside sources, be sure to credit these in MLA format.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay that analyzes how Hopkins's devotion to Ignation practices is reflected in two of his sonnets. Describe the Ignation practices he engaged in, explain how these translate into the world of literature, and then offer an analytical reading of two of Hopkins's sonnets that supports your claims. Support your observations with both quoted and paraphrased evidence from the poems. Be sure to credit your sources in MLA format.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay that explicates the various techniques that "The Windhover" uses to convey motion. Support your observations with both quoted and paraphrased evidence from "The Windhover." If you consult outside sources, be sure to credit these in MLA format.
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