Poetry

What is happening where the shadows of the wind have rolled?
 girls with golden hair are sleeping things are being bought and sold

• green wheat is yielding to change
• a thousand girls with golden hair are rising
• Ca thousand girls with golden hair are sleeping
• things are being bought and sold

The green wheat is changing color.What lines from the poem best support this conclusion?

• lines 2-4, 11
• lines 7 and 8
• lines 9 and 10
• lines 1, 5, and 6

What are “the sheaves”?

• girls with golden hair
• bodies and minds
• bundles of wheat
• days that are not fair

What is a theme of the poem?

• change
• greed
• loyalty
• exploration

Read lines 6-9 from the poem:It waited there, the body and the mind; 
And with a mighty meaning of a kind 
That tells the more the more it is not told.What idea is the poet expressing in lines 8 and 9?

• When something is not told to anyone, it loses all of its meaning.
• Waiting for something is more difficult to do mentally than it is to do physically.
• The best way to learn something is to ask someone about it.
• The more something is kept a secret, the more meaningful it is.

Read lines 11-14 from the poem:A thousand golden sheaves were lying there, 
Shining and still, but not for long to stay -- 
As if a thousand girls with golden hair 
Might rise from where they slept and go away.What words does the poet use to compare the sheaves to girls with golden hair?

• "from where"
• “as if”
• “but not”
• “were lying”

How are the sheaves similar to girls with golden hair? Choose the text evidence from the poem that supports your answer.

• "The world was turning slowly into gold."
• "So in a land where all days are fair,..."
• "Shining and still, but not for long to stay-..."
• "As if a thousand girls with golden hair might rise from where they slept and go away."

What does "It" in line 6 refer to? Choose the text evidence that supports your answer.

• "Green wheat was yielding to the change assigned..."
• "Like nothing that was ever bought or sold..."
• "As if a thousand girls with golden hair..."
• "The world was slowly turning into gold..."

What  might a "mighty meaning" of the wheat be. Choose the text evidence from the poem that supports your answer.

• "And as by some vast magic undivined/The world was slowly turning into gold."
• "So in a land where all days are not fair..."
• "Like nothing that was ever bought or sold..."
• It waited there , the body and the mind..."