• Do you agree or disagree strongly with any aspect of the literature?
• Does your view of the nature of God influence the way you interpret the work's meaning?

• The nature of humans?
• The nature of good and evil, virtue or sin?
• The purpose of life?
• The structure of knowledge?
• The practice of family? Politics? Education? Medicine? Law?
• The ecological makeup of the Earth?
• The unfolding of the future?
• The nature of the past? Traditions? History?
• How do you view the purpose and function of literature? Does this influence the way you read the work?

"All manner of thing shall be well/ When the tongues of flame are in-folded/ Into the crowned knot of fire/ And the fire and the rose are one." -- T.S. Eliot, Little Gidding