Blessings by James Wright

What time of day does the poem take place?

• sunrise

• midday

• twilight

• midnight

Why did the ponies come out of the willows?

• greet visitors

• watch cars

• graze by the woods

• leap over a fire

What separates the speaker and friend from the horses?

• the highway

• the pasture

• the woods

• the barbed wire fence

What is the "blessing?"

• springtime

• the landscape

• the relationship between animal and man

• the feeling of closeness between man and horse

Where can you find a blossom?

• sky

• garden

• gymnasium

• a wall

What does shyly mean?

• loudly

• timidly

• rudely

• clearly

loneliness

• being with others

• wishing to be strong

• feeling of being alone

• be loud and joyous

When you read "Darken with kindnes," this gives the horses

• strength

• ability to see

• seem human

• only animals

The ponies make the speaker feel

• sad

• bring up memories

• alive

• careful

What does "grazing all day, alone " mean?

• grazing far from the city

• grazing apart from the each other

• grazing without human company

• horses have been grazing one at a time