Binsey Poplars is full of unusual language, internal rhyme, alliteration, assonance, sprung rhythm and repetition. Hopkins developed his own unique sprung rhythm, based on a much older metric tradition with roots in Greek song and Welsh poetry.
"Nature's first green is gold"
The first half of this line is a metaphor. It compares the beginning of spring and new life to the color gold. Gold is also symbolic of something that is good or valuable.
"her hardest hue to hold"
This half of the line is personification. Personification is giving nonhuman things humanlike traits. In this line it gives Nature, a nonhuman, the ability to hold, which is a human trait.
These lines are describing when things begin in Nature. Most often this occurs in Spring. The flowers begin to shoot up from the ground, and new animal babies are born. This is the time where everything is golden. Things are new, exciting, and innocent. Unfortunately, this doesn't last, which is why it's hard to hold. Things grow up and change. They gain more knowledge and lose their innocence they once had.
Answer:
In some ways, Santiago does not change.
Explanation:
But ever since he had been a child, he had wanted to know the world, and this was much more important to him than knowing God and learning about man's sins.
That quote is from early in the story. It occurs right before Santiago tells his father that he wants to travel the world. Santiago is full of wonder and curiosity about all kinds of things.
Inferences because foreshadowing is the future and inferencing is guessing the story’s conclusion.
