`Farmer`s Bride` and `Sister Maude`
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‘The Farmer’s
Bride’
By Charlotte Mew
Consider ORDERLESS
Opening
Relationship
Devices
Emotions
Rhythm/rhyme
Language
Ending
Structure
Speaker
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
Title
What impression do we get from the title?
How might it be significant to the relationship?
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!