God's Judgement....

Answer in proper sentence form or paragraph as required please.

1.                  Explain what is happening to the poor people in the first two stanzas.

2.                  Why do these people turn to Bishop Hatto?

3.                  Explain what Bishop Hatto does and his motives for doing so; support your answer with a quote from the poem.

4.                  What effect does the line "But Bishop Hatto never slept again" in stanza 7 have on you as the reader?

5.                  What different reasons are there for why the rats have eaten the Bishop's picture?

6.                  Why does the Bishop behave as he does after the rats consume his corn?

7.                  What meanings might the line "...saw two eyes of flame" in stanza 13 have?

8.                  What reasons might there be for the poet to include the cat being frightened of the rats?

9.                  What is suggested by the line "To do the work for which they were sent" in stanza 15?

11.               What happens to the pace and mood of the poem as it reaches the end?

10.               Write a paragraph to explain what you think of the man Bishop Hatto.

13.               What makes "God's Judgement" a mysterious and supernatural poem?

14.               Write a paragraph outlining your own views about the poem (do you like it; favourite parts; moral behind the story; compare it to other poems).