The Country Girl
The Country Girl - meaning Summary
Preference for Honest Life
The poem portrays a young country woman who rejects city pretension after initial fascination. She perceives urban society as shallow and competitive and comes to value practical, hardworking men who offer loyalty and steadiness. The speaker contrasts the “sham” of fashionable life with the authenticity of rural existence and affirms a commitment to country values, even when true partners live far away.
Read Complete AnalysesThe Country Girl reflects at last – And well in her young days – For she is learning very fast, The worth of City ways. The emptiness of Tailors men The women’s paltry strife The Sham of ‘Smart Society’ Compared with Country Life. The novelty wore off at length, And flattered at the Ball, She things of one who has the strength And brains above them all. She things of men who Live and Work For sweetheart and for wife. And though it be as far as Bourke’ Are true to Country Life
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