Easter Wings / George Herbert

Test Practice

Identify Author’s Purpose and Point of View

With your partner, discuss how to answer these questions about the selection.

1. With what idea does Herbert end the poem?
a. We are all sinners who will be punished.
b. Divine help and our trials bring us closer to heaven
c. After death, we will be raised up again on Easter wings.
d. God’s victory becomes our own.


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