Question

What does the word warrens mean as used in the poem?
Group of answer choices

a crowded maze of houses

a type of bird

sidewalks

windows

Answer 1

The last wolf hurried toward me
through the ruined city
and I heard his baying echoes
down the steep smashed warrens
of Montgomery Street and past
the ruby-crowned highrises
left standing
their lighted elevators useless

Answer 2

I'm not familiar with the word, but we can use context clues to help us figure it out.
The passage says "the steep smashed warrens of Montgomery Street", so we can guess that a "warren" is part of a street.
In that context, birds and windows wouldn't make sense, so we can eliminate those.
The "warrens" are also described as "steep" and "smashed". That makes me think more of sidewalks than a crowd of houses, so I'm leaning more toward "sidewalks"

Answer 3

Before we decide on a final answer, we can check a dictionary to see if our guess matches up. I'll go ahead and do that

Answer 4

Well, it looks like my guess was off. One of the dictionary definitions I got was "a crowded tenement or district" or "a maze of passageways or small rooms"
So, I guess "a crowded maze of houses" would be the best answer after all