God's Judgement Questions

1. The first two stanzas explain that there is famine in the land, there is despair and people are sad and miserable.

2. People, poor people even more turn to Bishop Hatto, because he had a barn full of corn from last years' harvest, and there was a famine at the time, and people had little to eat.

3. Therefor Bishop Hatto agreed to let the poor people in to his barn. Though, right when the barn was full of people Hatto locked them all in. After he set the barn on fire laughed while saying:
'' I'faith 'tis an excellent bonfire!'' and '' And the country is greatly obliged to me, For ridding it in these times forlorn Of Rats that only consume the corn.''

4. The line; "But Bishop Hatto never slept again", this meant that this was his last night and that he is going to die. This is foreshadowing.

5. Foreshadowing could be used again that the rats are out to get him, also this is to make suspense which is used for making the story more interesting.

6. Bishop Hatto acted as he did, because he panicked as he knew the rats had eaten his face out of his picture and they had eaten all his corn, he was scared that they were going to kill him.

7. "...saw two eyes of flame"  This sentence means that he looked and saw a pair of eyes that were were flaming with fear.

8. The poet included the cat being frightened of the rats, because usually the rat is scared of the cat, which shows contrast.

9. "To do the work for which they were sent" This means that through all the hardship to get up the tower they did thier job to kill and put judgment on Hatto.

11. The speed of the poem slows down and the mood becomes really sad and depresing.