WINDHOVER

Question 1

WHAT TYPE OF SONNET IS THIS

Answer 1

SONNET

Question 2

.
The sprung rhythm gives energy and immediacy to the poem
.

Answer 2

words used in association with the bird “morning’s minion… daylight’s dauphin”
A dauphin is a prince, a minion a loyal servant. The morning the end of the night, the beginning of the day, the surge of light
is embodied by the falcon

Question 3

words are spilling out

Answer 3

Hopkins is breathless at its
beauty, the words coming
spilling out
“dapple dawn drawn falcon’’
the
“mastery of the thing.

Answer 4

The sight of the falcon in
flight is beautiful and breath
taking.
Simile
is used to capture the smooth power and control of the
bird
–
“
As a skate’s heel sweeps smooth on a bow
-
bend
.”