Questions page 89 and 93-94

Page 89
1. Reading the first line, I imagine two lovers, one or both of which is dying soon. They may be breaking up or parting ways. At the end of the first line, the speaker's tone seems to be sad and that of a realization that whatever is going on might be for the best.
2. The speaker's tone in lines 2-4 sound as he is angry and purposely speaking to someone in a hurtful way. The words "cleanly" and "freely" suggest that the speaker is glad to not have whatever burden he had. As if he is washing his hands of something or someone.
3. I think that the speaker doesn't actually want to break up and all the repetition is a way for him to try to convince himself that they should break up. When he declares that not "one jot of former love" should remain he is trying to take a stand, be strong, and convince both himself and his lover that they need to break up and forget about each other.
4. If I was the person being addressed in this poem, I would feel sad and betrayed that the person that I love wants to stop loving me.
5. In the last six lines, you kind of feel bad that this couple is ending their relationship. Presenting "Love" as a dying person shows that the love that this couple have for each other is real. By representing it as a dying person who recovers, it is a romantic symbol and emotionally moving.
6. The "you" in the poem is the speaker's significant other. The speaker says "let us kiss and part," "you get no more from me," "cancel all our vows," "when we meet," and "either of our brows." All of these quotes from the speaker include another person, who seems to be his girlfriend.
7. The information about Michael Drayton's love for Anne Goodere brings this poem to life. Now that we know of Drayton's life, we can see that he is the speaker in the poem. Your heart goes out to him and you feel bad that he didn't end up with his love, Anne Goodere.

Pages 93-94
1. When I read the first two paragraphs, I thought of summers with my elementary school friends. We would go swimming, play, and lie in the hammock for hours. I've never had a dog so I wouldn't know about the protective relationship between an owner and her dog.
2. Paragraphs 3-6 change the mood from a relaxed, summery, sunbathing mood to a timid, unsafe wilderness mood. The third section creates the contrasting mood of a hard working, independent woman, relaxing, but then frightened by a bear.
3. The sentence "Her hands lift to cover her breasts" make the woman looks dainty and fragile. I expected a knight in shining armor to protect her from this beast.
4. Paragraphs 12-16 show the reader that she has a soft spot for bears because she had one as a child and her mother threw it away and burnt it in the incinerator.
5. The fact that this woman is building her own porch leads the reader to believe that she is a strong, independent woman and the fact that she puts her couch outside on the porch shows that she likes the outdoors and is not threatened by the wildlife. The woman says that the bear smelt terrible and rancid, which leads me to believe that the bear is a bad character in the story. The bear's sex may make up for the fact that there isn't a dominant male in the story or in the woman's life.
6. The men in the different cutlers described are the ones that hunt to bear and it leads the reader to believe that the woman will not be able to handle the bear if need be.
7. Bears hibernate in the winter so the woman may be counting down the days until the bears go back into hibernation for the winter. This would be when they are not a threat to her.
8. I could definitely believe that this woman had the power to kill the bear because all through out the story, she was a really independent and strong woman, but I felt bad that it took so long to kill it and that he suffered so much.
9. I think that the final sentence is a little surprising because it confused me a little. I don't understand if she wants the claws as a souvenir or as something to honor the bear.