Poem Blog#6

A Fairy Song

Over hill, over dale,

Thorough bush, thorough brier,

Over park, over pale,

Thorough flood, thorough fire;

I do wander everywhere

Swifter than the moon's sphere;

And I serve the Fairy Queen,

To dew her orbs upon the green.

The cowslips tall her pensioners be;

In their gold coats spots you see -

Those be rubies, fairy favours,

In those freckles live their savours.

I must go seek some dewdrops here,

And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear.

This poem is from Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night's Dream Act 2 Scene I. Puck meets a Fairy and asks her 'how now, spirt; whither wander you? 'And this is the poem which the Fairy replies. I think this reply is a wonderful description of the powers that a Fairy has. It brings me a magical picture to know how the Fairy flies and works. It emphasizes the magical dream-like of quality of the play. This poem is quite full of rhymes. There are fourteen lines and one stanza. Hill, dale, bush, pale, flood and fire are symbolisms in this poem. I can use different tone to read this poem. If I use trippingly rhythm to read, it feels like the Fairy is happy to do her job. If I read it as a lower tone, I feel like the Fairy is tired to her job and complaint to do everything. Like Dr. Smith said that we could play different voices to read any poem. I found it very useful when I read this poem, gave me a different thinking of this poem.