Charlotte mew

• The Farmer’s Bride, written by the Victorian poet Charlotte Mew, presents a dysfunctional marriage between an uncommunicative farmer and his frightened bride
• The poem comments on possessive and imbalanced romantic relationships which lead to aggression and isolation
• question gender roles and societal norms regarding marriage.
• • Mew, her sister and her brother were all institutionalised - reflected in the poem with a sense of wasted life
• • Challenges the idea that a woman's identity is tied to her husband