The Farmer's Bride

Question 1

Themes:

Answer 1

• Pain, Loss, Death
• Desire, Longing
• Nature
• Unrequited Love

Question 2

Compare With:

Answer 2

• Porphyria’s Lover
• When We Two Parted
• Neutral Tones

Question 3

Pain, Loss, Death:

Answer 3

• “Like the shut of a winter’s day”

- “What’s Christmas time without there be some other in the house than us!”

Question 4

Desire, Longing:

Answer 4

• “The brown of her- her eyes, her hair, her hair”

- “Alone- Poor maid”

Question 5

Nature:

Answer 5

• “But like a mouse”
• “With birds and rabbits”
• “Out ‘mong the sheep”
• “Sweet as the first wild violets, she”

Question 6

Unrequited Love:

Answer 6

• “Too young, maybe”
• “She sleeps up in the attic”
• "”When us was wed she turned afraid of love and me and all things human”

Question 7

Compare To: Porphyria’s Lover

Answer 7

Similarities:
- Their relationship is not real
Differences:
- The man in The Farmer’s Bride is the dominant figure
- Porphyria in Porphyria’s Lover is the dominant figure

Question 8

Compare To: When We Two Parted

Answer 8

• The man wants the woman
• The woman in The Farmer’s Bride is weak
• The woman in When We Two Parted is powerful and rich
• In The Farmer’s bride, the relationship is a marriage
• In When We Two Parted, the relationship is an affair

Question 9

Compare To: Neutral Tones

Answer 9

• They are both apart and never will be together
• Men say bad things about women
• Pathetic Fallacy

Question 10

Structure:

Answer 10

• The farmers tells the story of the marriage falling through the two stanzas
• Discusses how he fells towards his wife when Christmas comes around

Question 11

Form:

Answer 11

• Dramatic Monologue
• His wife has no voice
• Farmer’s POV the whole time (makes it unreliable about his wife)
• Not predictable

Question 12

Tone:

Answer 12

• Farmer has a frustrated tone because of lack of sexual relations
• Reflects the emotion of his wife and the husband