farmers bride

• what is the context?

  two of mews siblings exsperienced mental illnesses when they were younger this impacted her work
• "three summers since i chose a maid"
• "we chased her flying like a hare"
• "soft young down of her; the brown, the brown of her"


  animalistic descriptions shows his desire for her
• what is the form?

  dramatic monolouge, writen from farmers pov, varied rhyme
• structually how does the farmers feelings change as the poem progresses

  hes progressively becoming more despondent about his marriage
• 3 themes of the poem

  fustration, desire, possesion
• how would the readers feel?

  modern day readers would feel repulsed by the narrators behaviour wheras for edwardian readers it would be normalised due to patricarchal society