"Relic" (2589)

Is there any significance about where the jawbone is found?

In what sense does a jaw "clutch" (6) and "grip" (16)? In the second stanza, we see that the jaw devours. How has it been devoured?

Why is the jawbone a cenotaph?

"Theology" (2590)

In the first two stanzas, we get a challenge to the traditional narrative of the Fall. What is that? The second stanza contains the connection. How might this change our theological perspective?

What we to make of the eating metaphor?

Why is the serpent sleeping in Paradise? What "calling" is he smiling at?

"Daffodils" (2592)

What might be significant in the speaker noting that they sold daffodils they picked?

Why (in stanza two) might the young lovers not be sure they wanted to own anything? Look at lines 23-25. What does he mean?

What is going on in lines 45-52?

What does the speaker compare the March return of the daffodils to? What do lines 59-61 mean?

How can the scissors remember? How are they "an anchor" and "a cross of rust" (166)?