There Is A Garden In Her Face Analysis

1There is a garden in her face
2Where roses and white lilies grow;
3A heav'nly paradise is that place
4Wherein all pleasant fruits do flow.
5There cherries grow which none may buy,
6Till "Cherry ripe" themselves do cry.

7Those cherries fairly do enclose
8Of orient pearl a double row,
9Which when her lovely laughter shows,
10They look like rose-buds fill'd with snow;
11Yet them nor peer nor prince can buy,
12Till "Cherry ripe" themselves do cry.

13Her eyes like angels watch them still,
14Her brows like bended bows do stand,
15Threat'ning with piercing frowns to kill
16All that attempt with eye or hand
17Those sacred cherries to come nigh,
18Till "Cherry ripe" themselves do cry.

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PLEase give meaning of each number lines in this poet.i have a report to do PLEASE!

| Posted on 2009-08-10 | by a guest

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*basically* it's about a guy who wants to kiss a girl, but she keeps saying no.
it is from the p.o.v of a 15th century guy, who mainly focuses on her face

| Posted on 2009-02-14 | by a guest

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'Cherry ripe!' was a London street-cry; women would hawk cherries through the streets and cry 'Cherry ripe!' The interest of the poem lies first in the way the woman's face is overlaid with the Garden of Eden, and second in the humorous (and slightly blasphemous) juxtaposition of the street cry with the sacred garden. The emotion in the poem lies in the tone of wonder with which the speaker attempts to describe the woman's beauty, comparing to Eden. The poem is surely not 'impersonal' at all. Speak the poem and see how the 'ar' of garden seems to open up a space (if you are sensitive to synaesthetic effects, of which Campion was a master). The woman is surely not jealously guarding her virginity: the point of the poem is that she will not go with just anybody - even if he is a prince - until she herself chooses her lover (and she might have had a number of lovers before this). In the context of the poem, 'Cherry ripe!' means 'I am ready to kiss you' (and perhaps more than kiss). And the poem has definitely nothing to do with Queen Elizabeth I.

| Posted on 2008-04-19 | by a guest

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'Cherry ripe!' was a London street-cry; women would hawk cherries through the streets and cry 'Cherry ripe!' The interest of the poem lies first in the way the woman's face is overlaid with the Garden of Eden, and second in the humorous (and slightly blasphemous) juxtaposition of the street cry with the sacred garden. The emotion in the poem lies in the tone of wonder with which the speaker attempts to describe the woman's beauty, comparing to Eden. The poem is surely not 'impersonal' at all. Speak the poem and see how the 'ar' of garden seems to open up a space (if you are sensitive to synaesthetic effects, of which Campion was a master). The woman is surely not jealously guarding her virginity: the point of the poem is that she will not go with just anybody - even if he is a prince - until she herself chooses her lover (and she might have had a number of lovers before this). In the context of the poem, 'Cherry ripe!' means 'I am ready to kiss you' (and perhaps more than kiss). And the poem has definitely nothing to do with Queen Elizabeth I.

| Posted on 2008-04-19 | by a guest

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In this poem, Campion describes a girl. But it is much more than that. He uses very universal colour imagery (a poem made to be interpreted by others). White is the universal colour of purity and virginity! (Also linked to the significance of the lily) This is an attribute that he seems to praise in the girl. At that time, an unmarried woman who was not a virgin would consider herself "spoiled" so virginity was an asset. Red is the colour of love and passion. But we can note that she will not allow anyone the "cherry" (hint hint) till it is "ripe" or ready. And she decides. Line 13 reminds me of an intertextual link to the Garden of Eden (the significance here is the fall of man through Eve's tasting of the forbidden fruit) and the angels that guard the gates after Adam and Eve are put out of the garden. the object of Campion's poem, this girl, guards her paradise, her own garden her ahem... "cherry" (virginity) as well! She is, it seems, an extra-ordinary woman (and her physical characteristics are only used as metaphors for her deeper more valuable assets). We can see this from his likening her teeth to a very valuable stone of the time: the pearl (which in itself also has Biblical connotations) The symbolism of the rose bud is also important. The rose is the symbol of feminity (because of it's similarity to a certain part of female anatomy) and in this poem, because the rose is featured in bud and not bloom, it gives a sense that this is a girl who is on the threshold of womanhood but not quite in "full bloom" and so, at that age, when she is all virgin and virtue and innocence, she is extra-ordinarily special.

| Posted on 2007-07-01 | by a guest

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i dont understand the meaning of this poem, i am trying to get a deeper meaning out of the physical links to material objects explained here by Campion. what does he mean by 'till cherry ripe themselves do cry'? is this some form of emotion he is expressing through the poem?


| Posted on 2007-05-12 | by a guest

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This is a courtly blazon, it is an inpersonal poem from the Elizabethan era. It's nature of purity and symbolic physical description is in direct relation with the way Queen Elizabeth set herself up. It is also lyrical, the repetitve last line indicates that it is actually lyrical or song verse.

| Posted on 2007-03-27 | by a guest

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I think that seven rhymes with heaven. ???

Anyways, the point is that this is a blazon. It describes the physical attributes of this random girl. Now the thing about a blazon is that it can never be too personalized because it only describes physical appearance (hair, skin, eyes etc etc).

The rhyme scheme is IN-TER-ES-TING.

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B
C
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hes trying to be unique with this rhyme scheme.. but actually hes just copying every one else's blazons. (hes trying too hard is where im getting at).


I see a bird! G2G!

| Posted on 2006-02-07 | by Approved Guest

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i have no idea so please help. this is not an analysis but i really need help. please someone write one so i can understand what this poem means. i have no idea so please do something. stop making me write in this box. why do i need to add more? huh? just post this thing. stop telling me that this should be longer and that i should work towards an analysis instead of a review. im not even writing an analysis. please submit this now. im running out of patients to keep typing gibberish.

| Posted on 2005-09-11 | by Approved Guest