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Gerard Manley Hopkins

The Windhover

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1918

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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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