1. What does the speaker imagine that he might have done with the man he killed had they met in other circumstances?
2. Why does shooting the enemy soldier seem curious to the speaker?
3. Who is speaking at the beginning of the poem? What has awakened this person?
4. What did the speaker think was happening? What is actually happening?
5. What does God suggest might happen to the gunners if this were indeed Judgment Day?
6. What does the parson's comment tell you about how successful he considers his work to have been? Why might the parson feel that he failed?
7. What does the sharp-featured land symbolize for the speaker?
8. What does the speaker hear? How does this sound contrast with the speaker's environment?
9. What possibility does the speaker entertain as a result of hearing the thrush's song?
