There Is A Garden In Her Face Notes
There is a Garden in Her Face:
Superficial and unrequited love
The garden is used as a metaphor to describe her face (also uses her not her face)
Campion suggests the root of love came from lust and desirability
Metaphor: ‘There is a garden in her face where roses and white lilies grow” compares her face to a garden and therefore nature’s work of art
Comparison between the roses (passion) and white lilies (purity), white skin and rose colored cheeks
By a garden being in her face it is figurative language: gives us a sense of natural beauty
Biblical Illusion: ‘A heavenly paradise is that place’ garden of Eden referring to the woman and that she is God’s creation of paradise
Heavenly paradise: Garden of Eden: forbidden fruit as she is not available
Simile: ‘Her eyes like angels watch them still’. Comparison to angels and is perceived as a heavenly creature and inferior to men (love objects)
Angels are superior and above humans and this is conveying that he is subject to her power
Poets wrote of this time that the women were more superior in love
Imagery: Use of imagery proves that he is attracted to aesthetic appearance “Her eyes like bended bows” can snap at any moment destroying the cause of her displeasure. Aesthetic desirability given weight over nature… Love is superficial
THERE IS A GARDEN IN HER FACE. Thomas Campion.
There is a garden in her face,
Where roses and white lilies grow;
A heavn’ly paradise is that place,
Wherein all pleasant fruits to flow. There cherries grow, which none may buy
Till ‘Cherry ripe’ themselves do cry.
Those cherries fairly do enclose
Of Orient pearl a double row;
Which when her lov’ly laughter shows,
They look like rose-buds filled with snow.
Yet them nor peer no prince can buy,
Till ‘Cherry ripe’ themselves do cry.
Her eyes like angles watch them still;
Her brows like bended bows do stand,
Threatening with piercing frown to kill
All that attempt with eye or hand
Those sacred cherries to
Superficial and unrequited love
The garden is used as a metaphor to describe her face (also uses her not her face)
Campion suggests the root of love came from lust and desirability
Metaphor: ‘There is a garden in her face where roses and white lilies grow” compares her face to a garden and therefore nature’s work of art
Comparison between the roses (passion) and white lilies (purity), white skin and rose colored cheeks
By a garden being in her face it is figurative language: gives us a sense of natural beauty
Biblical Illusion: ‘A heavenly paradise is that place’ garden of Eden referring to the woman and that she is God’s creation of paradise
Heavenly paradise: Garden of Eden: forbidden fruit as she is not available
Simile: ‘Her eyes like angels watch them still’. Comparison to angels and is perceived as a heavenly creature and inferior to men (love objects)
Angels are superior and above humans and this is conveying that he is subject to her power
Poets wrote of this time that the women were more superior in love
Imagery: Use of imagery proves that he is attracted to aesthetic appearance “Her eyes like bended bows” can snap at any moment destroying the cause of her displeasure. Aesthetic desirability given weight over nature… Love is superficial
THERE IS A GARDEN IN HER FACE. Thomas Campion.
There is a garden in her face,
Where roses and white lilies grow;
A heavn’ly paradise is that place,
Wherein all pleasant fruits to flow. There cherries grow, which none may buy
Till ‘Cherry ripe’ themselves do cry.
Those cherries fairly do enclose
Of Orient pearl a double row;
Which when her lov’ly laughter shows,
They look like rose-buds filled with snow.
Yet them nor peer no prince can buy,
Till ‘Cherry ripe’ themselves do cry.
Her eyes like angles watch them still;
Her brows like bended bows do stand,
Threatening with piercing frown to kill
All that attempt with eye or hand
Those sacred cherries to