37 pages • 1 hour read
Gerard Manley HopkinsThe Windhover
Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1918A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to prompt student engagement.
Reading Comprehension Answers
1. A. These words refer to princes and knights, respectively.
2. C. The poem is a Petrarchan sonnet with some non-traditional meter and rhymes.
3. B. This is a Christian poem.
4. A. The first stanza marvels at the bird’s ability to manage the friction of the wind.
5. C. “As a skate's heel sweeps smooth on a bow-bend: the hurl and gliding / Rebuffed the big wind” (Lines 6-7)
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