"There is a garden in her face," by Thomas Campion
Author: Thomas Campion
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There is a garden in her face
Where roses and white lilies blow;
A heavenly paradise is that place,
Wherein all pleasant fruits do flow:
There cherries grow which none may buy
Till “Cherry-ripe” themselves do cry.
This sentence surprises me because poet is referring a woman’s face as a garden. He thinks she’s pretty and her face is the “garden full of flowers”. My first impression of this poem is who’s the woman the poet’s talking about.
My first impression of this poem is who’s the woman the poet’s talking about and I wonder how she looks like.
Because woman’s face is described as a garden, her pink cheeks are roses, and white lilies could be her eyes.
Paradise is usually referred as an ideal or idyllic place. This woman is absolutely ideal in the poet’s thoughts and she’s perfect.
I think this sentence is really cool because woman is waiting for someone special and “cherries” are actually her lips which no one can have, and the poet probably want them.
this poem could be a metaphor for virginity. she isn’t ready to ‘pop the cherry’, she wants to find the perfect man.
This woman could make some man want her, and that’s a metaphor that shows us how’s the poet in love with her. He wants her and s he’s “crying”.
This sentence repeats in 6th line in each paragraph and it makes a pattern. The poet chose to repeat this line because that’s the main point of the poem and it shows us the woman’s power.
Those cherries fairly do enclose
Of orient pearl a double row,
Which when her lovely laughter shows,
They look like rose-buds filled with snow;
Yet them no peer nor prince can buy
Till “Cherry-ripe” themselves do cry.
Snow is glowing, sparkling, gently, and beautiful. The poet sees this woman as a something very special.
Her eyes like angels watch them still;
Her brows like bended bows do stand,
Threat'ning with piercing frowns to kill
All that attempt with eye or hand
Those sacred cherries to come nigh,
Till “Cherry-ripe” themselves do cry.
Source: The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900, edited by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch.( 1900)
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I know Campion wrote this poem in Shakespeare’s time and Shakespeare had many enemies who tries to be better then him. I wonder if Campion was trying to be better than him…
The poem is wrote in A,B,A,B,C,C rhyme. (Face-Place, Grow-Flow, Buy-Cry). This structure repeats in each paragraph and it makes a good rhythm.
Each line has 8 syllables, but the third has 10, and the eight has 9 syllables, This creates a pattern. Numbers go 10-9-8
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