Question

Can someone help me with this?

1. What does the poem tell us about the speaker's character?

2. Knowing what you do about Puritanism, what does the poem tell us about the speaker's relationship to her God, her family, and her community?

3. How does hyperbole inform the speaker's claims of her love?

4. What does the poem reveal about the speaker's values?

5. What is the theme of the poem?

6. What is the speaker's purpose in writing this poem?

Answer 1

1) To me the way the speaker talks it comes across that they are a loving person with a large heart.

2) The speakers point of view seems to be that through loving with all her heart is the only way to grow closer with her god.

3) By overstating her feeling she accentuates how important it truly is to her.

4) The speaker identifies that nothing is more important than love, and loving ones god, not riches, not whole mines of gold can even compare.

5) Love....its just that

6) The speakers purpose in writing this poem is to share her values with others, to allow others to see the world through her eyes, which she sees as a better world.

Step-by-step explanation:

close reading is a big deal when it comes to reading, a lot of the questions they ask are based completely on what's hidden within the text.

another really important part is to remember in some cases there is no right or wrong answer, and it just comes down to how you interpret it.