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Essay / First Draft - 1950
First Draft===========This poem is based on the 19th century. There are three main characters in the story. Cousin Kate, Cottage Maiden and Lord. The title of this poem is self-explanatory. As you can see, the poem is based on a character called Cousin Kate. As she is the main character of the poem, the whole poem revolves around her. The poem is based on the triangular conflict, which means that there is a conflict between three people. The poem basically tells us about life in the 19th century and people's attitudes towards illegal relationships. The poem tells us about a young country girl who had an affair with a lord. She loses her virginity to him, then regrets the whole ordeal. In the 19th century, if you were not considered pure, your friends and family would reject you. It was considered impure and impure to have sex before marriage. Men would then look down on you with disgust, as would your friends and family. The poem shows how a man can love a woman, then throw her away and move on to another as he pleases, and because he was a lord, the cottage girl couldn't say anything. This highlights the difference between upper and lower class people. If the girl from the cabin had said something, people wouldn't believe her and would turn a blind eye to her and her accusations. Stanza 1 depicts the introduction to the poem. The questions raised in these two stanzas show that she was “drawn” by the lord. This tells us that he trained her like an animal luring its prey, waiting to attack its victim. At the beginning of stanza 1, we are told that she is happy with her life. According to the introduction, she works in a chalet and is happy with her life. According to this, she is “happy” with her friends. She is happy with her friends and is quite happy with her life. She continues by saying "why did a great lord discover me". This tells us that among all the workers, or all the girls that the lord knows, the girl from the chalet was chosen. The beginning of the poem is written in the first person and continues this way throughout the poem. The structure of this stanza is written in the first person, which means that it was written from his point of view and shows his feelings and no one else. The language used dates from the very beginning of the 19th and 20th centuries; it gives a feeling of happiness leading to sadness.