The Farmers Bride

Question 1

Title

Answer 1

Pastoral genre, bucolic, innocent, fertility, nature
No name- lack of identity, no name, possession
Bride suggests first year of marriage but no joy of youth or freedom- but 3rd year of being trapped- no entrance into a married life

Question 2

Language

Answer 2

Like the shut of a winters day/ Her smile went out 
Like a little frightened fay
Lying awake with her wide brown stare
We chased her, flying like a hare
We caught her, fetched her home at last
I’ve hardly heard her speak at all
Like a mouse 
Shires the leveret, Swift as he
Straight and slight as slight as a young larch tree 
Sweet as the first wild violets 
A magpies spotted feathers lie

Question 3

Structure

Answer 3

Tis but a stair/ betwixt is (enj)
Caesura
The brown of her- her eyes, her hair, her hair!
Alone, poor maid. It’s but a stair/ betwixt us
She/ to her wild self. But what to me?

Question 4

Form

Answer 4

Narrators perspective wife silent
Emotional connection lack
Read out aloud as much access to Wife as he has
Early stances scenes n facts of narrative
Sense of nerrators longing and desire in final stanza- follows journey of marriage of time can’t wait any more
Iambic tetrameter
No regular rhyme scheme drives narrative forward but lack of rhyme means darker more serious tone
Brief moments of rhyme highlight turning points
Dramatic monologue
Dialect of farmer sense of realistic personal voice
Characterisation of Pharma juxtaposed with young girls silence never know her he has power even solely by his voice