Q For this week, please respond to TWO questions. Note: you are not responding to a fellow student this week. Make sure you follow the instructions listed in the syllabus for a thorough answer. In what way is color significant in “Pied Beauty”? How does color relate to Hopkins’s vision of the world and to God? What does the falcon in “The Windhover” mean to the speaker of the poem? “Pied Beauty” contains a number of compound words: “couple-colour” (line 2), “rose-moles” (line 3), “Fresh-frecoal” (line 4), “chestnut-falls” (line 4), and “fathers-forth” (line 10). What effect does this technique of hyphenation have on your reading of the poem? How do the hyphenated words relate to the poem as a whole?
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