1.What grows on either side of the river? What runs through the field?
2.What city lies in the distance? What is the name of the island in the river?
3.Who is in the castle?
4.What tells you that you are reading a story about magical occurrences?
5.What does the Lady do night and day? What curse is on her?
6.By what means does the Lady see what is happening in the world? Why doesn't she just look out the window and view the world directly?
7.Is there a mate in the Lady's life? How do you know?
8.What causes the Lady to say that she is "half sick of shadows"? What does she see that fills her with yearning?
9.How is Sir Lancelot described? What about him would be attractive to the Lady?
10.Why does the Lady look out? Why does she take this risk?
11.What happens when the Lady turns her attention to the world?
12.What does the Lady do when she leaves the tower?
13.What does the Lady do in the boat? What happens to her?
14.How does the crowd react on seeing the Lady? How does Sir Lancelot react?
15.What elements in Ulysses' present life are unsatisfying?
16.For what did Ulysses become famous? In other words, what made him "become a name"?
17.What kind of life does Ulysses find dull? For what does he yearn?
18.What fine qualities does Telemachus have? Does Ulysses have these same qualities?
19.How does Ulysses feel toward his fellow mariners, now grown old? Why does he still believe that he and they can do great things?
20.What would a helmless life be like?
21.How do the speaker's nights differ from his mornings?
22.Why does the speaker sometimes think it "half a sin" to try to express his feelings in words?
23.What comfort does writing give him?
24.What does the speaker long to prove? What claim made by "fickle tongues" does the speaker reject?
25.What is the speaker saying about the difference between people and animals?
26.What are the speaker's feelings about love and loss?
27.How does the speaker respond to the Christmas caroling? Why?
28.What conflicting emotion is the speaker feeling? What is the source of his sorrow? of his joy?
29.What kinds of poetry does the poet reject in the first stanza of section 48?
30.What kind of poetry does his sorrow allow him to write?
31.What trust do people have, according to the speaker?
32.What event in nature symbolizes, for the speaker, the idea that good can come of ill?
33.To what does the speaker liken himself? Has he truly accepted the idea that everything happens for a reason and that good will come of ill?
34.What hope do people have about life?
35.What in the way that nature treats life seems ironic to the speaker?
36.What faith is the speaker groping toward? What is he learning to trust?
37.To what is the speaker proposing to wed himself?
38.What good might come of the speaker's sorrow? What changes might sorrow bring about in him?
39.Why doesn't the speaker write verse to praise the qualities of his lost friend?
40.What does the world praise? To what is the world cold?
41.What is the place "somewhere, out of human view"? What will be known there that is not known now?
42.What joys did the speaker experience at this Christmastime?
43.Does the speaker really believe that regret can die? What conclusion does he come to on that subject?
44.In what does the speaker hear and see his departed friend?
45.In what sense does the speaker still have his friend? How could he not lose his friend even if he lost his own life?
46.What does it mean to close with all that you have loved and with all that you flow from?
