Chapter 12 - Inversnaid - Exploring the Text: What is the effect of such diction as “burn,” “rollrock,” “coop,” “comb,” “fawn-froth,” “twindles,” “degged,” “braes,” and “flitches”?
How does line 8 stand out among the first 12 lines of the poem? What does Hopkins suggest that nature is capable of?
Chapter 12 - Inversnaid - Exploring the Text: How does line 8 stand out among the first 12 lines of the poem? What does Hopkins suggest that nature is capable of?
What might be the value of “the weeds and the wilderness” in the last line?
Chapter 12 - Inversnaid - Exploring the Text: What might be the value of “the weeds and the wilderness” in the last line?
How would Rachel Carson answer the rhetorical question that Hopkins poses at the beginning of the fourth stanza? Lewis Thomas? Bill McKibben? Joy Williams? What would your answer be? Write a brief response from each, and then your own.
Chapter 12 - Inversnaid - Exploring the Text: How would Rachel Carson answer the rhetorical question that Hopkins poses at the beginning of the fourth stanza? Lewis Thomas? Bill McKibben? Joy Williams? What would your answer be? Write a brief response from each, and then your own.
Would you call Hopkins an environmentalist? Explain why or why not.