Poetry- The Farmer's Bride
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- Created on: 03-05-16 18:49
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- The Farmer's Bride
- Structure
- Starts "three summers ago" until "Christmas time"
- this shows the fact that time is passing by with them still unconnected
- Regular Rhyme Scheme
- This could suggest the fact that things in their marriage have always been this way and will continue to remain this way.
- Starts "three summers ago" until "Christmas time"
- Simile "Like the shut of a winters day"
- This suggests a dark and depressing atmosphere, and suggests how closed off his wife
- There is often frost in winter which would reinforce the idea that the husband has to try hard to open his new wife up but she avoids him.
- Colloquial language
- This reinforces the fact that he is a farmer and that he lives in this environment.
- "Flying like a hare"
- Makes it sound as though she is being hunted by the farmer and others, this makes us imagine her as fearful and vunerable
- This reinforces the fact that she is young and suggests that the farmer could be taking advantage of her because of this.
- Makes it sound as though she is being hunted by the farmer and others, this makes us imagine her as fearful and vunerable
- Structure
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