Questions to consider: Ode.

Is it a poem about nature? Childhood? Life? Death? Is it a religious poem? Is it a Christian poem? Is it about the subconscious? Who is the speaker? Is it an allegorical poem? What are the “Tree, of many, one” and the “single field”? What is the “something” that they speak of that is gone? Where did it go? Is the poem optimistic or pessimistic? How many different connotations of the word “nature” occur in the poem? Is it a poem about human nature? What ultimately are the “splendor in the grass” and “glory in the flower”? What is the “philosophic mind”? Is it a positive thing or a negative thing?