E6
1. Study Questions on Coleridge’s “Dejection: An Ode”
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/43973
1). In the first stanza, how does what the speaker calls his “dull pain” (l 20) contrast with what he imagines the storm will be like?
2). What reasons does the speaker give for his sense of having lost a sense of “joy”?
3). What effect does the storm have upon the speaker in the seventh stanza?
2. Study Questions on Wordsworth’s “Ode: Intimations of Immortality”
http://www.bartleby.com/101/536.html
1). In the first four stanzas of the poem, what does Wordsworth say that he has lost?
2). What is meant by “endless imitation” (106)?
3). Why does Wordsworth say that he will “raise/the song of thanks and praise” (139-140) for “those obstinate questionings / Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings” (141-142)?
3. Study Questions on Wordsworth’s “Resolution and Independence”
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/45545
1). What has caused the “dejection” that the speaker says he feels in the fourth stanza?
2). What does the speaker mean when he says “By our own spirits are we deified” (l.47)?
3). What is “the fear that kills” (l.113)? How does his experience of the leech gatherer help the speaker to overcome such fear?