Poetry Across Time - Relationships - The Farmer's Bride
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- Created on: 05-11-12 18:06
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- The Farmer's Bride
- Title - 'The Farmer's Bride'
- Country setting
- 'Three Summers since I chose a maid'
- He married her 3 years ago
- Set in the countryside
- Dramatic monologue
- Charlotte Mew has created the farmer character
- Quite a lot of rhyming but each stanza is different
- Feel sad for the farmer and his wife
- Calm and sorrowful tone - not bitter
- In farmer's dialect
- Country dialect
- 'When us was wed'
- Narrative style
- Mostly description of events
- Erratic rhyme scheme reflects chaos of poem
- Mew said that it was a short story, not a poem
- Written by Charlotte Mew
- Most of her family were insane
- Didn't marry and have children so she would not pass mentail illness on
- Two mentally ill siblings who were admitted to institutions
- May have influenced her poem as is about a woman who goes mad
- 'but more's to do//At harvest-time than bide and woo.'
- Didn't really see each other before marriage - did not take much notice of her
- Harvest important at the time as people depended on the harvest
- 'She runned away'
- She ran away
- Dialect
- 'seven-acre field'
- Suggests that he is rich
- She may have been made to marry him for money
- Suggests that he is rich
- 'we chased her'
- A whole village has gone to find her
- 'Turned the key upon her'
- They locked her up to make sure she didn't run away again
- Lines 20-21
- Doing housework like she was supposed to. Doesn't speak - withdrawn into herself
- 'With birds and rabbits'
- Close to animals
- ''Not near, not near!' her eyes beseech'
- Doesn't say anything but her eyes look frightented
- 'beasts in stall//Look round like children at her call'
- Animals in stables
- She is close with animals and they are obedient
- 'I've hardly heard her speak at all'
- She's stopped speaking to him in particular
- 'levenret'
- A wild rabbit (she will run away if you come near her
- 'young larch tree'
- Like a small, young tree
- 5th stanza
- It is autumn and they are looking forward to christmas
- Lines 34-35
- Shorter days
- People are lighting fires
- Good description of seasonal change
- 'One leaf'
- Leaves are falling
- 'rime'
- White traces of chalk (a sign that winter is coming)
- 'Some other in the house than we!'
- He wants children but can't
- Similar to Charlotte mEw
- He wants children but can't
- 6th stanza
- He longs for her but can't get to her because she is afraid of him
- Empathy for farmer as he still loves her but the feeling isn't mutual
- He feels sorry for her
- Title - 'The Farmer's Bride'
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