1. What sorts of incidents did Wordsworth propose to write about? What sort of language did he propose to use? In what ways did he wish to present these incidents and for what purpose?
2. What two things are necessary for a poem to be of value?
3. What is the origin of poetry?
4. According to the speaker, what happens when people focus too much on "getting and spending"?
5. What, according to the speaker, could the ancients see that we cannot see because we are too civilized?
6. What effects has remembering this scene had on the speaker?
7. What was the speaker like in his younger years?
8. What was the appeal of nature to the speaker in his youth?
9. How does the speaker regard nature now? What does the speaker sense in the natural world around him?
10. Whose reaction now, to this scene, reminds the speaker of his own youthful reaction?
11. Why is this place special to the speaker, beyond the fact that he is "A worshiper of Nature"?
