The speaker is someone outside of the poem. The setting is probably in a house and the actions going on is that a woman's boyfriend is mistreating her badly. The speaker is talking to the audience about how they shouldn't bother trying to understand.
B) What is the conflict and/or theme of the poem?
The theme of this poem is love, or the different meanings of love. Everyone has their own meaning of the word love.
C) Is there a particular form or rhyme scheme to the poem?
Sonnet
D) List important images and discuss what they may mean?
Important images are when the man broke her pinky, stole her cheeks, spat on her father, and and got her sister pregnant, but she stood by him. This means that even though her man has been treating her poorly, she reminds by his side, because she loves him. The speaker tells us that this is something we will never understand and not to even bother trying.
E) Write a summary of the poem.
A man came home and chucked his girlfriend's cat in the world chipper, because dinner wasn't ready on time. He spat on her father, broke her pinky, stole her checks, and got her sister pregnant, but despite it all she stayed by his side and even married him. She married him, because she loved him.
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