There is a garden in her face Thomas Campion

Learning Objective: To EVALUATE the literary and linguistic features in ‘There is a garden in her face.’ Learning Outcome: To RESPOND to how the theme of marriage is illustrated in the poem.

Context Thomas Campion was born in London on February 12, 1567. He was a law student, a physician, a composer, a writer of masques, and a poet. Attended Cambridge and studied law but never made it to the bar First poetic attempts in Latin. Had a love of quantitative versification in classical Latin poems which carried over into his English poems and songs. Campion's reputation rests chiefly on his lyric poems, which are distinguished for their musical quality and charm. a theorist of prosody – the rhythm and pattern of sounds of poetry and language Campion was practising as a doctor in London from 1606. During that time, he wrote several masques which were performed at the court of James I. In 1615 Campion was questioned about a murder but was found innocent and released. Campion died in London, probably of the plague, on March 1, 1620, and was buried at St. Dunstan's-in-the-West. A masque was a spectacle performed at court or at the manor of a member of the nobility; its purpose was to glorify the court or the particular aristocrat. a regular succession of long and short syllables - used in languages in which the length and brevity of vowels is phonemically important. It was most highly developed in Arabian and classical verse.

There Is A Garden In Her Face BY THOMAS CAMPION There is a garden in her face Where roses and white lilies grow; A heav'nly paradise is that place Wherein all pleasant fruits do 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 lovely laughter shows, They look like rose-buds fill'd with snow;       Yet them nor peer nor prince can buy, 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,

MEANING The speaker says the face of a young woman he admires is like a garden. Her skin is the hue of lilies, save for her cheeks. There, roses bloom. And her lips are cherry red. They enclose a double row of pearls (her teeth). When she laughs, he sees these pearls contrasted with her lips. No man may kiss her until she says "Cherry ripe!" 

London fruit vendors were famous for the cry "cherry ripe .......London fruit vendors were famous for the cry "cherry ripe!" This verbal advertisement meant, of course, that the vendors were selling ripe cherries. Robert Herrick (1591-1674) also wrote a poem entitled "Cherry-Ripe." The phrase caught on in modern times, and food producers now make cherry-ripe cakes, candy bars, cupcakes, and similar products. 

There is a garden in her face Where roses and white lilies grow; BY THOMAS CAMPION There is a garden in her face Where roses and white lilies grow; A heav'nly paradise is that place Wherein all pleasant fruits do 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 lovely laughter shows, They look like rose-buds fill'd with snow;       Yet them nor peer nor prince can buy, 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, Is there actually a garden in her face? What are the connotations of the highlighted nouns and adjectives? There is a garden in her face Where roses and white lilies grow; What is the poem’s metre?

A heav'nly paradise is that place Wherein all pleasant fruits do flow There Is A Garden In Her Face BY THOMAS CAMPION There is a garden in her face Where roses and white lilies grow; A heav'nly paradise is that place Wherein all pleasant fruits do 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 lovely laughter shows, They look like rose-buds fill'd with snow;       Yet them nor peer nor prince can buy, 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, Imagery? What are the connotations of the highlighted nouns and adjectives? A heav'nly paradise is that place Wherein all pleasant fruits do flow Alliteration of ‘p’ sound…

There cherries grow which none may buy, There Is A Garden In Her Face BY THOMAS CAMPION There is a garden in her face Where roses and white lilies grow; A heav'nly paradise is that place Wherein all pleasant fruits do 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 lovely laughter shows, They look like rose-buds fill'd with snow;       Yet them nor peer nor prince can buy, 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, What are the connotations of the highlighted nouns and adjectives? Pronoun – ‘none’ what does the poet mean? There cherries grow which none may buy,       Till "Cherry ripe" themselves do cry. What is the rhyme scheme?

What metaphor does the poet use in this stanza? There Is A Garden In Her Face BY THOMAS CAMPION There is a garden in her face Where roses and white lilies grow; A heav'nly paradise is that place Wherein all pleasant fruits do 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 lovely laughter shows, They look like rose-buds fill'd with snow;       Yet them nor peer nor prince can buy, 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, What metaphor does the poet use in this stanza? What effect does it have? What do the last two lines of this stanza mean?

What can you say about the similes in this last stanza? There Is A Garden In Her Face BY THOMAS CAMPION There is a garden in her face Where roses and white lilies grow; A heav'nly paradise is that place Wherein all pleasant fruits do 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 lovely laughter shows, They look like rose-buds fill'd with snow;       Yet them nor peer nor prince can buy, 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, What can you say about the similes in this last stanza?

What the poet is telling us … Form and structure Grammar and syntax Lexis and imagery Phonology What the poet is telling us … (themes, tone, character/narrator)

Try these… Which image do you find most interesting and why? How might this poem be relevant today?

How does Campion present this woman through his choice of literary techniques? Point: Campion implies that the woman the speaker addresses is a mixture of innocence and sexual experience through the description of Evidence the ‘roses and white lilies’ that ‘grow’ in her face. Technique This metaphor combines the sexuality and passion of the roses with the innocent purity of the ‘white lilies’, Effect which combine to emphasise the speaker’s viewpoint that this unnamed woman is ready to become a sexual being but still clinging on to her chastity and virginity.

COMPARE and CONTRAST the two texts. There Is A Garden In Her Face BY THOMAS CAMPION There is a garden in her face Where roses and white lilies grow; A heav'nly paradise is that place Wherein all pleasant fruits do 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 lovely laughter shows, They look like rose-buds fill'd with snow;       Yet them nor peer nor prince can buy, 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, COMPARE and CONTRAST the two texts.