<p>Hmm, I took a (literal) minute to get the house of bone poem but I felt it was quite simple from then on. From what I could make out, the poet was basically exhorting the youth to do all sorts of youthful things and to not hold back as old age will only compromise what is left of the houses of bone (the human body).</p>
<p>As for the honey one, the poet made a whole bunch of analogies in which city dwellers were analogized with bees and the city with the hive. So I saw the honey to be a metaphor for city things (because bees make honey in their hives). If you remember the answer choices, 4 were city things and one was a pastoral image (as someone said on page 2) so I felt that was the obvious choice.</p>