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Questions-"Root Cellar" by Theodore Roethke
1. Identify as many examples of imagery as you can, and specify which of the five senses each image appeals to.
2. How do the last two lines of the poem illuminate the author's attitude toward the root cellar? How do they contrast with the imagery in the first 9 lines of the poem?
Questions-"Pied Beauty" by Gerard Manley Hopkins
1. What does the word "pied" mean?
2. What do "skies of couple-colour," "rose-moles all in stipple," "chestnut falls," "finches wings," and "landscape plotted and pieced" all have in common?
3. Are "all trades, their gear and tackle and trim" literally pied or dappled? If not, what do they have in common with the dappled things listed in the first 5 lines of the poem?
4. What other kinds of contrasts besides visual contrasts does Hopkins refer to?
5. What is the theme of the poem? What do the last two lines have to do with the images in the first 9 lines?