The Farmer's Wife

“The Farmer’s Wife” is a richly woven tapestry, underlying the powerfulness of women when exalting their bodies by writing its parts. Right from the outset, the choice of the title is revealing. Taking a look back at “The Farmer’s Wife” magazine in the United States of America, one may recognize the embedded allusion in Sexton’s poem. The aim of the magazine is to build a bridge between real farmers with the audience; it also uses articles to instruct these workers on a variety of activities. The magazine targets these hard-working women who devote their time and energy to the farm. It is believed that the main interlocutors are “farm women as a group” (Lauters 80). Their contribution is inevitable: they do endure hardships under the scorching weather for the sake of plowing the dry land and doing other activities. They are strong women because their bodies merge with the land. The…

relationship with his wife should be functional and uncomplicated. However; due to the complicated circumstances he is unable to receive any affection from his bride. "Three summers since I chose a maid, too young maybe—but more 's to do at harvest-time than bide and woo." The attitude the farmer has towards his wife displays how dominant men were towards women during the 19th century. "I chose a maid" the personal pronoun used suggests that the farmer was the one who controlled the…

Published in 1916, Susan Glaspell’s one-act play, Trifles, describes the investigation of Mrs. Wright, a farmer’s wife who is in jail because she was accused of murdering her husband, but had no apparent motive for murder. While searching for evidence at her house, three men look for obvious facts and motives, but are unsuccessful. On the other hand, two women, Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale, pay close attention to trifles and reveal many secrets about the Wright family, but decide to keep them a…

The Farmer’s Bride poem shed the painful light on how deadly lack of knowledge can be by featuring the farmer’s situation. The farmer was stuck in a situation where he want to marry and have family so his barn business can continue in the children’s hands but the woman paired with the farmer refused to marry him because he treated her like animal with only purpose of mating and she didn’t want to marry or bear the children of a stranger. As result, farmer was frustrated by his wife’s behaviors…

it was less common than in past generations. Still, women did not have the rights that men had, and they often were not at liberty to choose a spouse. Rather, their family chose a spouse for them, “possible and allowable matrimonial relationships were constrained through a discursive web of legally accepted forms and linguistically defined categories” (Kapell, Matthew Wilhelm, 43). “The Farmer’s Bride” by Charlotte Mew talks about innocence and ignorance, a girl that is too young to marry and…

In the 1700’s, women had very few options in life when it came to what they wanted to do as a career. If a job required any sort of real intelligence or “know-how”, it was deemed unfit for a woman to do. Aside from just being a housewife, women were only allowed to do, what the male population referred to as, “women’s work”. Women’s work included spinning cloth, being a tailor, milliner, dyer, shoemaker, midwife or embroiderer. Some women worked in food preparation such as brewers, bakers or…

as to how women were supposed to dress, speak, study, think etc. A perfect wife had to be modest, obedient, and hard working. Certainly, such limitations of a woman’s free will could not go unpunished. Sometimes, constant oppression, humiliation, and ignorance resulted in terrible crimes as described in Susan Glaspell’s “Trifles”, while on other occasions, men’s failure to appreciate desperate…

After finally understanding Ellen’s position, he decides she is right but as he is about to confront her he realizes: “She was gone… The door was open, the lamp blown out, the crib empty” (pg. 71). This is the start of a catastrophic tragedy. As Paul proceeds to look for his running spouse with the baby, he finally finds them “crouched down against a drift of sand as if for shelter.” Regretting his decisions, he realizes the worst has come: “The child was quite cold. It had been her arms,…

She did not want to live in her hometown anymore because she wasn’t interested in the lifestyle everyone else had. “-and none of these sights so far inspired me to get hogtied to a future as a tobacco farmer’s wife. Mama always said barefoot and pregnant was not my style.” (Kingsolver 3). Many girls in Taylor’s town became teen moms and got married at an early age. Taylor wanted better for herself, so she got a job and stayed out of trouble, she didn’t feel the need to become a mother or…

encourage Edward Stacey to help his son’s pregnant wife and grandchildren. Yet, she backgrounds her husband's mistakes so that his father can take pity on him. The purpose of including foregrounding and backgrounding in the beginning of the letter is to make her father in law biased towards them so he can be more willing to help. She was trying to show that her husband is blameless, even though it was his second time in debtor's prison, and that it was an unfair occurrence. Eliza Stacey then…