How Sweet I Roamd From Field To Field Poem Analysis

In literature, Poetry can be described as a way to express emotions and ideas through various styles and schemes. William Blake describes the perfect example of the paradoxical pleasure and pain of failing in love in his poem, ‘How Sweet I Roam’d from Field to Field’. Throughout this poem is a young lady who happens to fall in love with a prince. As the poem progresses through the stanzas she unintentionally gets tangled in his love only to be left feeling the bitter pain of love. The opening line of the poem starts off with this young girl who appears to be innocent, as she roams “from field to field” (1). This line my view signified her youth and carefree personality as she is not in search of anything specific. She is simply enjoying the …show more content…
Initially although he is perceived to be this sweet, charming character his true nature is shown. As for the girl, she has been grounded by the prince, unable to fly away as her “wings were wet” (9). A bird who has went wings is unable to fly and essentially be free. The girl feels so captured that the only thing coming out of her is “vocal rage” (10). The next two lines reveal what has in fact happened to the young girl. Once a free bird this young lady has been captured in a “silken net” (11), and shut into the prince’s “golden cage” (12). Once again the color gold symbolizes the prince’s wealth, along with the silken net. In comparison to the other stanzas this stanza also follows the same rhyme scheme. While initially the prince came off are charming, his true nature came out and it took captive of an innocent …show more content…
She is merely entertainment for the prince who take full advantage of her. The first line of the stanza mentions the prince sitting and he listens to the sounds she makes. To me what brought up the image of a bird that sings trapped in a cage, solely serving as an animal for amusement. The following line is an example of the animal like treatment brought forward by the prince. He laughs at the young girl and plays with her, just like an owner of a caged pet. The girl has become a prisoner of the prince she once fell for. The following lines are the most important of the poem because it depicts the final loss of innocence for the girl. The prince “stretches out my golden wing” (15), and “mocks my loss of liberty” (16). In my opinion what Blake means by this is that the girl has loss her virginity. The prince knows what he has done and for him she is nothing but someone that he used for his benefit. Just like the first three stanzas this one also follows the rhyme scheme of abab. Throughout the poem Blake also follows the iambic meter, where the one unstressed syllable is followed by a stresses