The environment is presented as a powerful influence in forming an individual's personality in Charlotte Mew's, "The Farmer's Bride." This idea is dramatised through Mew presenting to us the significant changes a repressing marriage has made on the young wife of a farmer. Seemingly, the environment in which she has been susceptible to has had a potent influence on her character. Throughout the poem, the farmer continually contrasts the young woman's temperament with all things wild. He cannot understand his wife, and the poem also touches on his inner conflict, as a result from her reactions to an environment she does not like. He wants to be able to love her, but she does not allow him to. The farmer lacks the emotional capacity to understand his wife's turmoil.

In the first stanza, Mew relates how the farmer came about `choosing' his wife, which gives insight into the...