What do you make of the last few lines? Are the farmer’s feelings for hiswife more complicated than they first seem?
What will be an ideal response?
- Evident throughout the poem is the strength of the farmer’s love for “little frightened fay.” Untutored he may be, but he has not approached her sexually since she ran away. As lines 40–41 make clear, he longs for a child. It is also apparent that he longs for his beautiful young wife. Especially after line 30, the expression of his desire for her has an intensity that soars to heartrending lyricism. Mew makes clear that, for the speaker, the physical nearness of his wife in the final stanza is almost unbearable. Note the skill the poet demonstrates in “The Farmer’s Bride,” a rimed poem that seems effortless, plain speech.
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