Questions from page 89

1) As I read the first line I imagined two people looking around realizing that there is no one there, kissing, and then leaving each other. I imagine the speaker using a tone that sounds like he is giving up on something, almost like a defeated tone.
2) The next three lines have a more joyous tone saying he is glad and free of something. This suggests that he is glad that whatever is bothering him he is now free from and has wiped himself clean from it.
3) I think the speaker uses the repetition to make a point to whomever he is speaking with. The extreme declaration would also prove this point and drive it home, so to speak.
4) If I was the person being addressed in the poem then I would hope to understand what the speaker is talking about by the time he gets to line 8. I would probably feel confused unless I knew and felt mutually about the breaking off.
5) My view changes in the last 6 lines because the poem sounds as if there is one last little hope for the relationship but it can be broken easily. Love as a dying person could mean that there is little hope left and all of it will soon be gone.
6) I imagine this you is the other person in the relationship with the speaker. Clues to this would be the way the speaker refers to himself as "I" and it sounds as if he is talking directly to someone.
7) This information proves my response with that the speaker was in love at one point and realized he could never have her therefore his love for her had to die.

Questions from page 94
1) I can imagine myself in the same scene relaxing on a hammock in the middle of the woods with my dog, making me feel relaxed. I believe that the owner could in fact be more of the protector than the dog especially if the dog was awaken by the slightest shift in the wind.
2) I think paragraphs 3-6 do alter the mood because the first 2 paragraphs had more of a relaxed calm mood while the thought of a bear at a zoo seems more tense than relaxed. In the third section the mood goes again from calm and relaxed to scared and tense.
3) The statement creates more of a scared expectation, the first response to when one is frightened is to curl up try to protect yourself, therefore giving me an imagine of fearfulness.
4) Her attitude towards bears used to be a comforting feeling until she found out that her bear was no more, obviously upsetting her. From there on she no longer had a positive attitude towards bears and the comforting feeling was lost.
5) I would expect the bear to be a lot bigger than the woman therefore intimidating her making her judge the bear as a male instead of as an "it".
6) In paragraphs 19-21 it explains how different cultures dealt with a bear, whether it be to honor the bear after it is killed or let it be by not bothering the bear. Her fears are increased in the seventh section after hearing stories about how bears have hurt and even killed people.
7) I think the summer days are marked with an X because those are the days that she needs to be careful when alone. They could mean that the bear walks around freely and those are the days that she needs to watch herself.
8) In paragraphs 32-41 my reaction was glad for the woman finally killing the thing that was haunting her. I was happy that she had defeated the bear for good.
9) I don't think the final sentence is surprising at all because the way that she killed the bear. She has defeated it and now wants revenge for the times she was fearful of it.