Sylvia runs home with dollar signs in her eyes but realizes that she physically can't "tell the heron's secret and give its life away" (2.13). It's never explicitly stated why she does this, but we'd peg her obvious love of nature as Exhibit A and her intense experience atop the oak tree as Exhibit B (for more on this tree experience, check out the "Symbolism, Imagery, Allegory" section—there's more there than meets the eye).
Although Sylvia remains in the forest, she never forgets the hunter, nor is she ever quite sure that she's made the right choice. Although Sylvia is a proto-hippie country gal at heart, she knows that the hunter represented a very different path her life could've taken, and as the story ends, she still wonders where it might have taken her. It doesn't exactly reek of regret, but seems more like a sort of forlorn daydream about what might have been. But hey—we all do that sometimes.
2 is D the inequliaty of american society
The Earth's tilted axis is the cause of the seasons. Throughout the year, the different parts of the Earth that directly receive the Sun's rays change.
Not sure it's either a or d because the by writing a poem and giving it to someone out of love would offer a feeling of comfort so it most likely D because the poem itself is not what gives love it's the feeling and love from the author that conveys warmth. So in short probably D
