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‘The Farmer’s Bride’. By Charlotte Mew. Opening Relationship Devices Emotions Rhythm/rhyme. Language Ending Structure Speaker. Consider ORDERLESS. Title. What impression do we get from the title? How might it be significant to the relationship?. Speaker and Voice. Whose voice?
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‘The Farmer’s Bride’ By Charlotte Mew
Opening Relationship Devices Emotions Rhythm/rhyme Language Ending Structure Speaker Consider ORDERLESS
Title • What impression do we get from the title? • How might it be significant to the relationship?
Speaker and Voice • Whose voice? • How is it characterised? • What is the tone? • What is significant about the narrative being told from this perspective?
Characterising the relationship • Consider what we learn about the farmer and his wife. • Window side: look at bride’s character • Door side: look at farmer’s character • What are we, as readers, led to conclude about this couple? The speaker? The poet?
Language • What kind of imagery is created through the language? • What is the effect of this imagery? • Are these images developed into extended metaphors? • Are there any devices being used heavily? • Other features: • Portrayal of time? • Contrasts? • Verbs? • Colours?
Rhyme and Rhythm • Is there any apparent pattern of rhythm? • What kinds of lines do we have? What is the effect of this? • What about rhyme? • How might rhyme contribute to meaning in this poem? (Any repetition?) • Rhyme is used extensively - but how? What does it communicate?
Form • “Mew is known as an early pioneer of free verse – using her variant: ‘rhymed free verse’. Free verse, by definition, doesn’t conform to a set pattern of line-lengths and numbers of lines per stanza. Rhyme is usually associated with conventional patterns, and later developers of free verse dropped rhyme, only using it occasionally to tie-off a poem or emphasise a point.”
‘Sister Maude’ By Christina Rossetti
What impression do we get from the title? How might it be significant to the relationship? Title
Language • Cold/deathly - repeated/emphasised? Why? • Regal - why has she used this? • Religious - why is this such a key theme?
Ballad Form - does the poem do all this? • A song that tells a self-contained story • Concise - relies heavily on imagery (rather than just description) • Can be tragic, historic, romantic, comic • Often includes repetition/a refrain • Mostly written in quatrains (four line stanzas) • Ballad meter = alternating lines of iambic tetrameter (8 syllables) and iambic trimeter (6 syllables) • Second and fourth lines of quatrain rhymed (a,b,c,b) • Often lots of variation though - yay!