1. It's an Ode
2. From the Norton intro: "I used to brood over the stories of Enoch and Elijah [Genesis 5.22-24; 2 Kings 2.11], and almost to persuade myself that, whatever might become of others, I should be translated, in something of the same way, to heaven."
   

   Genesis 5.22-24:    22 And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:   23 And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and and five years:   24 And Enoch walked with God : and he was not; for God took him. 2 Kings 2.11    11 And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them [Elisha and Elijah] both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.

3. Sections 1 & 2: "glory" -- "resplendent beauty or magnificence" -- It has a more specific meaning in religious imagery. See("The Virgin in Glory") & "Christ in Glory"
4. Section 4, lines 44-47 are a reference to the folk custom of "maying," which included a dance around the maypole.
5. The pansy (line 54):Pansy Lore | In Ophelia's madness
6. Section 5, line 58 -- Compare to Shakespeare's The Tempest -- Also see Wordsworth statement, quoted on p. 336:"but having in the Poem regarded it [the splendor of childhood] as presumptive evidence of a prior state of existence, I think it right to protest against a conclusion, which has given pain to some good and pious persons, that I meant to inculcate such a belief."
7. Section 7, line 104 -- The phrase "humorous stage" does appear in Samuel Daniel's Musophilus: Containing a General Defense of Learning; it's in the opening lines of the dedication to "Master Fulke Grevill": "I do not here upon this humorous stage / Bring my transformed verse, apparelled / With others' passions, or with others' rage . . . ." However, the note is too restrictive. It would be more appropriate to illustrate what Wordsworth is getting at by a reference to Jaques' famous "seven ages" speech (AYLI, 2.7.139-166).

The Problem

1. "Intimations" -- very cautious
2. The Epigraph: What is the resolution of the paradox? | "natural piety" -- true to universal human nature & validated by nature. What is an example of piety that is not "natural"?
3. Section 2 -- Beauty remains, but the problem is still there
4. Section 3 -- pumping himself up
5. Section 4 -- The willed joy fails him. | What is the "Tree" and the "Field"; and why should they speak of "something that is gone"? |
6. Section 5 -- Wordsworth's Credo
7. Section 7 -- focuses on a child who exemplifies the conflict between Earth and Nature (Nature includes the "clouds of glory") hinted at in the previous two sections.
8. Section 8 -- An Exhortation (in the form of a question) to the child of the previous section, urging him to cling to his "heaven-born freedom" (line 122).