<p>Pied Beauty </p><p>Gerald Manley Hopkins </p><p>Glory be to God for dappled things— For skies of couple-color as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings; 5 Landscape plotted and pieced—fold, fallow, and plow; And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim. All things counter, original, spare, strange; Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?) With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim; 10 He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change: Praise him. </p><p>DIRECTION: COPY THIS INFORMATION ONTO YOUR WORD FILE. PLACE YOUR HEADER ON YOUR PAPER, SAVE POEM, QUESTIONS, AND ANSWERS ON YOUR STUDENT DRIVE AND WIKI (12TH GRADE-WRITING FOLDER).</p><p>Making Meanings Pied Beauty </p><p>First Thoughts </p><p>1. How would you describe the speaker’s emotional state, and did this poem make you share it? </p><p>Shaping Interpretations </p><p>2. What specific examples of pied beauty does the poet mention in lines 2–6? </p><p>3. What do you think the poet means by saying “all things counter” (line 7)? </p><p>4. How does the poet combine alliteration with antithesis (opposites) in line 9? </p><p>5. According to the last two lines, why does the poet offer glory and praise to God? </p><p>6. In line 10, what contrast does the poet suggest between the beauty of the physical world and the beauty of God the creator? </p><p>7. How does the rhythm of the last line make it especially effective? </p><p>Extending the Text </p><p>8. How is this poem, like Psalm 23 (Collection 5), a “praise song”? </p>