The Farmers Bride By Charlotte Mew Flashcards
Compare to:
Porphyria lover or Singh song
Key themes
Madness, control, desire,unrequited love, nature,frustration
Dramatic monologue
Wife has no voice
Effect of dialect
“Runned” gives a stronger sense of his character
“I chose a maid,”
“Chose” shows a system of patriarchy-suggests she didn’t have a choice
“Too young maybe-“
Fearful of the restrictions (sexually)
OR
It causes her to be scared of her like a child
“She turned afraid”
Turns her back on the love he wants from her
“Like the shut of a winter’s day”
Simile to describe her-not loving towards him
Shows the quickness of her change like the darkness occurring in the winter
“We chased her,flying like a hare”
Simile- represents her as helpless and a victim
“We” many people against her exaggerates now scared she would be and how isolated she is.
“Shiver and a scare”
Fear is expressed like a hunted animal
Shows her weakness and lack of control
“We caught her,fetched her home at last
And turned the key upon her, fast”
Rhyme of last and fast emphasises the decisive action of locking her up-sinister sounding
“Fetched” implies she is an object
“Caught” possessive and controlling
Effect of semantic field of hunting
“Chased” “Hare” “Caught” “Fetched” “Mouse” Shows her vulnerability Represents her as nothing more than a hunting animal which is considered for fun. Frustration occurs when the hunt is bad reflects the farmers feelings towards his wife not giving him what he wants
Effect if change to present tense in the last stanza
Emphasises his confusion about why she would run away
“Her eyes beseech”
Silence shows that she doesn’t know how to communicate-sympathy for her as she is suffering in silence
“Beseech” = beg, she seems desperate and see men as predatory
Effect of rhyming triplet
“Stall”
“Call”
“All”
Emphasises the narrators frustration about how is wife is treating him
