questions

pg. 96
1. When I read the first line I imagined two people having one last kiss, before they went their different ways. I think the tone that the writer uses in that line was a very sad and heartbroken tone.
2. As I read the next three lines I saw the writer use a different tone, one that seemed like he was happy he wasn't seeing his lover anymore, becuase he uses the words "cleanly" and "free" as if once he said goodbye to this person he would live freely without anyone being a burden to him.
3.The speaker keeps repeating that the lovers should break it off because he is tring to convince the reader that there is no love left at all between them and by using the phrase, "not one jot of former love should remain", he is reinforcing that idea.
4. If I were the one being addressed in this poem, after I read line 8 i would be kind of angery at the writer for repeating the fact that the writer does not feel any resent for breaking it off.
5. My veiw of the relationship after I finished the poem was that they must of had a good one, but it eventually got dull and their love started to slowly die, like someone on their death bed.
6. I think the "you" in this poem is the person he used to love, and I know this becuase he uses words like "us" and "our".
7. Knowing this information chnaged my view of the poem becuase now I think that he was pretending that they were lovers and they broke it off, to make himself feel better about himself, becuase she married someone else.

pg. 100
1. The first two paragraphs brings to my mind a happy scene in the summer that takes place in a yard with a little girl laying in a hammock and a dog lying next to her. I could imagine myself in a similar scence and I would feel pretty stress free. When the writer suggest that the girl is more the dogs protector then the other way around I feel like the dog is lazy and a small dog.
2. Paragraphs 3-6 slightly change the mood of the poem because it introduced some wild animals that present a more ominous feeling in the poem.
3. This sentence tells me that the girl was scared when she first saw the bear, becuase it spooked her and she was not expecting it.
4. Paragraphs 12-16 shows that the girl likes bears, becuase she has a teddy bear that she sleeps with and doesnt like to be without.
5. The bear appears more mean becuase he destroys the sofa on the porch, which represents a cozy setting. Whether the bear was a he or she, it did not effect my attitude towards the bear.
6. As the reader reads the seventh section they relize how dangerous and powerful bears are, becuase it tells how one sweep of the bears paw can split a skull open and how bears have attacked and killed humans unmercingly.
7. I think the summer days marked with an X are the days she expects to see the bear and to be prepared to defend herself incase the bear attacks her.
8. When I read lines 32-41 I was shocked that the girl actually shot and killed the bear, and it was not a clean kill in any matter, becuase the bear died slowly and painfully. At one point I felt bad for the bear becuase it was experiancing so much pain as it was dying.
9. The last line does not surprise me very much because she is going to take the bears claws, as proof that she killed the bear. The claws will also act as a symbol which will symbolize the bear and she will always keep it cose to her.