Question: What emotions is the poet trying to evoke in his descriptions of Simon throughout the poem and the tale of the tree root at the end of the poem?

Remember in his "Preface to Lyrical Ballads," Wordsworth defined good poetry as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" about which the poet has "thought long and deeply" (p. 242)--good poetry combines emotion with contemplation of meaning.

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