In "A Harrowing Escape," what does Cornelia's request to Andreasson to excuse herself and step into the woods reveal about her? She is a strong problem solver and is bold enough to try to trick her kidnapper. She is modest and does not want to damage Andreasson's opinion of her. She is used to getting her way and believes that Anderasson will let her do what she pleases. She is terrified of what will happen next and wants to alone so that she can think more clearly.

She is a strong problem solver and is bold enough to try to trick her kidnapper.

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Considering the context of the poem, these lines reveal that the speaker’s body is aging. She suffers from a number of ailments that come with age and therefore she feels her body is rotting away. This feeling is expressed in the line "And my clay house mold’ring away." These ailments have also left her body very weak. The line ""Nor grinding pains my body frail" corroborates this view. Based on these two lines the speaker perhaps feels the physical body is a vessel that people possess in their mortal form. This vessel endures the hardships that time brings. Only upon death is a person free from the physical body.

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