Poem Analysis: The Farmer's Bride

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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 but he had respect for her rights though he couldn’t understand why she didn’t want to bear his child. The farmer couldn’t have children because he treated his wife like other animals in barn but with special purpose since he “imprisoned” her in the

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