"Long before the year was up, Janie noticed that her ... husband had stopped talking in rhymes to her. He had ceased to wonder at her long black hair and finger it. Six months back he had told her, "If Ah kin haul de wood heah and chop it fuh yuh, look lak you oughta be able tuh tote it inside. Mah fust wife never bothered me ‘bout choppin’ no wood nohow. She’d grab dat ax and sling chips lak uh man. You done been spoilt rotten."
i think that this quote means that Nanny’s prophecy comes true and Logan stops "kissing Janie’s feet," stops bowing down to please her, and begins expecting her to pull her own weight. Janie learns that her physical charms cannot hold a man’s interest for long and that he soon stops sweet-talking or "talking in rhymes" to her when he finds that she has little to offer in return. Any illusion Janie had of love with Logan is destroyed.
"Janie pulled back a long time because he [Joe] did ... not represent sun-up and pollen and blooming trees, but he spoke for far horizon. He spoke for change and chance."
this quote means that Janie is wary of giving herself over too quickly to Joe because, though he is far more romantic than Logan, he does not really remind her of the ideal of love conjured by her beloved pear tree’s "sun-up and pollen and blooming trees," but he does fill her mind with all the possibilities that the "far horizon" symbolizes.
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