Farmer’s Bride

• what do the long stanzas suggest?

  a rambling state of mind
• ‘I chose a maid / Too young maybe - but theres more to do’


  she is a virgin, forced to marry. speaker dismisses that she is young
• ‘flying like a hare’


  she is compared to a small animal, like a prey after running away as they are chasing her. simile shows her timidity as a prey
• ‘she does her work about the house’


  fulfilling her role/duty as she is a woman and their role is in the domestic sphere
• the bride in farmer’s bride is denied a voice and only portrayed through the eyes of a man- the speaker
• ‘alone, poor maid. ‘tis but a stair / betwixt us’


  she is within reach, the speaker has waited so long that the lust is taking over him, sinister line. - about to take it whether she wants to or not
• ‘her eyes, her hair, her hair!’


  obsession / losing control
• ‘her ____, ___ hair, her hair!’

  eyes, her
• ‘_____, poor ____. ‘tis ___ a _____ / _______ us’

  alone maid but stair betwixt
• ‘she does her ____ about the _____’

  work house
• ‘______ like a ____’

  flying hare
• ‘I _____ a ____ / Too _____ maybe- but ______ more __ __

  chose maid young theres to do