Question

Read “The Snowstorm” in your reading packet. Then answer the question below.

What does the poet describe in lines 18 – 20?
Question 5 options:

1) The poet describes the shapes the snow makes as it accumulates.

2) The poet describes the buildings that must be rebuilt after the storm.

3) The poet describes the way the farmer protects his animals from the storm.

4) The poet describes the way the farmer decorates his buildings in the winter.
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Answer 1

@Lxdrpr

Answer 2

The Snowstorm
Announced by all the trumpets of the sky,
Arrives the snow, and, driving o’er the fields,
Seems nowhere to alight: the whited air
Hides hills and woods, the river, and the heaven,
5 And veils the farmhouse at the garden’s end.
The sled and traveler stopped, the courier’s feet
Delayed, all friends shut out, the house mates sit
Around the radiant fireplace, enclosed
In a tumultuous privacy of storm.
10 Come see the north wind’s masonry.
Out of an unseen quarry evermore
Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer
Curves his white bastions1
with projected roof
Round every windward stake, or tree, or door.
15 Speeding, the myriad-handed, his wild work
So fanciful, so savage, nought cares he
For number or proportion. Mockingly,
On coop or kennel he hangs Parian2
wreaths;
A swan-like form invests the hidden thorn;
20 Fills up the farmer’s lane from wall to wall.
Maugre3
the farmer’s sighs; and at the gate
A tapering turret overtops the work.
And when his hours are numbered, and the world
Is all his own, retiring, as he were not,
25 Leaves, when the sun appears, astonished Art
To mimic in slow structures, stone by stone,
Built in an age, the mad wind’s nightwork,
The frolic architecture of the snow.

Answer 3

thnx again again lol

Answer 4

bastions: a projecting part of a fortification built at an angle to the line of a wall, so as to allow defensive fire in several directions.

Answer 5

I think it may be 4 wbu

Answer 6

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Answer 7

it would be really nice

Answer 8

I think so because it talks about his "work" so im think 4

Answer 9

yaaayyy thank you so much

Answer 10

i want to marry you

Answer 11

Lxdrpr

Answer 12

lol no problem