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William Wordsworth's "Lines" (1432-35)
For each question, write a brief and concise response (just a sentence or two). When appropriate, use short quotations to show that you have found the relevant passages in the text, but you should also put parts of your responses into your own words to show that you understand what you are reading. (I am assuming that Wordsworth himself is the speaker of this poem.)

1. How long has it been since Wordsworth last visited the area around Tintern Abbey?

2. Wordsworth tells us that, even when he was far from this scene, his memory of the scene stimulated "sensations sweet, / Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart." Where specifically was Wordsworth when he experienced these sensations?

3. Wordsworth says that he stands before this scene "not only with the sense / Of present pleasure, but with pleasing thoughts" of what?

4. Wordsworth uses a simile ("like a") to describe himself when he "first / . . . came upon these hills." What does Wordsworth say that he was like? Look up in a good dictionary the word Wordsworth uses, and write the appropriate definition of the word here, not the word that Wordsworth uses. (No points just for writing down Wordsworth’s word!)

5. Wordsworth says that he has "learned / To look on nature, not as in the hour / Of thoughtless youth," but in a different way. What does he now hear and feel when he looks on nature?