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The Farmer's Wife. better, my lover, dead. Analysis (ai): This poem expresses the dissatisfaction and loneliness of a farmer's wife in rural Illinois. The speaker criticizes the monotonous routine of their marriage, describing it as a "brief bright bridge/of the raucous bed" that leaves her feeling empty and alone.
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The poem, published in 1916, tells the story of a farmer who marries “a maid” and describes their early experience of marriage. It is told from the farmer’s perspective; his wife is not ...
The Farmer’s Bride. By Charlotte Mew. Three summers since I chose a maid, Too young maybe—but more’s to do. At harvest-time than bide and woo. When us was wed she turned afraid. Of love and me and all things human; Like the shut of a winter’s day. Her smile went out, and ’twadn’t a woman—.
“The Farmer’s Bride” (1912) is a dramatic monologue by the English poet Charlotte Mew, and eventually became the title work of her acclaimed 1916 collection. The poem's speaker, a farmer, reflects on his marriage to a much younger girl, who is clearly afraid of him and uncomfortable with the traditional role she is expected to play as a wife.
Mar 1, 2022 · So God made a farmer’s wife. “Somebody who’d stitch a family together with the soft strong bonds of family meals, sharing, and caring. Who would smile to see her kids doing what mom and dad did, and to hear family say there is no better way to grow up than on a farm.
Mar 11, 2013 · So, God made a farmer’s wife. God said, “I need someone willing to sit up all night with their sick child or a rejected lamb in her kitchen. And watch her children grow. Then pray each morning and night to keep them safe and teach them to say “please and thank you”.
Jan 15, 2016 · ‘The Farmer’s Bride’ lends itself to close analysis and addresses many perennial themes of poetry, such as marriage, love, sexual desire, the cycle of the changing seasons, and the relationship (indeed, the clash) between society or social convention and the individual.
