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Answer:
The notion of the phoenix probably means that love gives her hope for a change or better life. The phoenix symbolizes being recreated or reborn.
Explanation:
It is likely the author means that women often feel like love is their escape or that once they find a husband they can be reborn from having to succumb always to the wills of men in her life. A phoenix is a mythological bird that is reborn again after burning, emerging from the ashes as reborn. Love gives them hope for a time but then the "disturbed rest" and "painful signs" suggest that she suffers because of love as well. The entire poem laments the position of women at that time which was conceived as normally controlled by and subservient to men.
Answer and Explanation:
As Nelly narrated her story and described events that occurred in the lives of certain characters/people during the previous winter, Lockwood, a stranger, was being entertained up to a point that Nelly wondered how long Lockwood would remain a stranger without falling in love with one of the characters: Catherine. Thus, Nelly hoped that Lockwood would fall in love with Catherine, and marry her. However, although Lockwood saw the possibility of falling in love, he doubted that his love would ever be reciprocated because he was not from the same hometown or land as Catherine.