The Tamed Deer Comments

This sonnet is not about a hunter running down a deer with his dogs, it is really about the mystery of a relationship between a man and a woman. The woman being a deer is a play on the words- dear and deer. In the end the only way that the mighty powerful huntsman can catch the gentle deer is if she lets him. Tired of the pursuit and equally as thirsty as the hunter, she returns to the brook where he is at to quench her thirst. She stands there and waits for him to come claim her because she wants him to.