Lines 11-14 of Gerard Manley Hopkins’ “God’s Grandeur” reads
Question
Lines 11-14 of Gerard Manley Hopkins’ “God’s Grandeur” reads: “And though the last lights off the
black West went / Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs—/ Because the Holy Ghost over the bent / World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.” The word “bent” in line 13 means __________.