Lines Composed in a Wood on a Windy Day

Soaring means

• Flying high

• Dried up

• Rising up

• Flying or rising high in the air

The poets full name is:

• Anne

• Anne Bronte

• Acton Bell

• Patrick Bronte

Anne bronte had 2 sisters. Who are they?

• Charlotte Bronte

• Patrick Bronte

• Emily Bronte

• Molly Bronte

Where did the poet want to be?

• She wanted to be in a wood on a windy day

• She wanted to be in a wind on a woody day

Scudding means:

• Moving quickly

• Fast

• Waves

• Up in the air

What else is the poet saying is aroused by the wind

• People

• Earth

• Seas

• Earth and Seas

How does the ocean respond to the force of the wind?

• The ocean is sleeping

• The ocean is lashing

• The ocean is dancing

Where does the poet want to be and why?

• She wants to be in a palace to hide from wind

• She wants to go to the mountains

• She wanted to see the ocean

What do the other elements of nature appear to feel?

• The trees are tossing

• Dead leaves are not moving

• Grey clouds moving slowly

Pick out a line in the poem that suggests that the wind brings things to live.

• I wish I could see how the ocean is lashing

  The foam of its billows to whirlwinds of spray;

• The long withered grass in the sunshine is glancing,

  The bare trees are tossing their branches on high;

• My soul is awakened, my spirit is soaring

  And carried aloft on the wings of the breeze;