Gerard Manley Hopkins & William Ernest Henley

Question 1

in the cruel gasp of (e.g., a predator)

Answer 1

in the fell clutch of

Question 2

spotted; specked

Answer 2

dappled

Question 3

beatings; batterings

Answer 3

bludgeonings

Question 4

multi-colored; patri-colored

Answer 4

pied

Question 5

flinched; recoiled

Answer 5

winced

Question 6

a piece of uncultivated land

Answer 6

fallow

Question 7

Latin for “unconquered”

Answer 7

“Invictus”

Question 8

dots

Answer 8

stipple

Question 9

changing frequently; whimisical

Answer 9

fickle

Question 10

danger; peril; threat

Answer 10

menace

Question 11

“For rose-moles all in stipple upon ___”

Answer 11

trout that swim

Question 12

imagery and metaphor in stanza 2 of “Invictus”

Answer 12

“Under the bludgeonings of chance

My head is bloody, but unbowed.”

Question 13

allusion and imagery in stanza 4 of “Invictus”

Answer 13

“It matters not how strait the gate,

How charged with punishments the scroll.”

Question 14

“For skies of couple-colour as a ___”

Answer 14

brinded cow

Question 15

imagery in stanza 1 of “Invictus”

Answer 15

“Out of the night that covers me,

Black as the pit from pole to pole”

Question 16

“Glory be to God for ___”

Answer 16

dappled things

Question 17

” … all trades, their ___”

Answer 17

gear and tackle and trim

Question 18

imagery and metaphor in stanza 3 of “Invictus”

Answer 18

“Beyond this place of wrath and tears

Looms but the Horror of the shade”

Question 19

Hopkins’ final declaration in “Pied Beauty”

Answer 19

“Praise him.”

Question 20

Conclusion and Central One Idea of “Invictus”

Answer 20

“I am the master of my fate:

I am the captain of my soul.”