1. At what time of day does the poem take place?

2. Yew trees were often planted in cemeteries. What is the "narrow cell" referred to in line 15?

3. To whom is the speaker referring?

4. How does the speaker feel about ambition and grandeur?

5. What does the speaker say about the paths of glory?

6. To what or whom does the speaker compare a flower in the desert?

7. What positive side of living a simple life is pointed out in this stanza?

8. What causes the speaker to sigh?

9. What is written on the gravestones? What purpose is served by these "holy texts"?

10. What simple pleasures of the rustic life are recalled in these lines? What human woes are also recalled?

11. What line in the poem shows that death comes unexpectedly, in the middle of life's pleasures and woes?

12. What did the simple person give during his life? What did he receive?