An analysis the poem

Tittle :  “A Fairy Song” by William Shakespeare (Poem)
Method : New Criticism

Download here.!


INTRODUCTION

William Shakespeare born at  April 26, 1564 (baptized) was a British writer who was often referred to as one of the greatest
writers of England. He wrote about 38 tragedies, comedy, history, and 154 sonatas, 2 narrative poems, and other poems. He wrote between 1585 and 1613 and his work has been translated in almost all living languages ​​in the world and performed on stage more than any other playwright and died April 23, 1616 (age 51).
In this poem there is a fairy that keeps going around & spreading dew drop on every flower he comes. The flowers are known as cowslips and she is spreading dew drops on them. He refers those flowers as her Fairy queen. Cowslips are the queen pensioners which mean that the queen is giving away something in return just like an employee gets a pension in return of his services to his employer at work. The poem is all about a fairy serving the fairy queen.
He said that he does everything what faeries do. A Fairy explained that she wanders various places like briers, fires, dales, parks and floods quickly to serve Titania (the queen of fairy) by dropping dew drops over the bushes and grass. She does because they are fairy favors and she tries making them smell good.
I choose this poem for my analyzed because i felt if the a fairy want to do everything for her fairy queen, how she is very loved to her fairy queen, like a fairy queen is her mother. I wanna be like this fairy, I want do anything for my mother such as hills, dales, bushes, fires and floods and I will loving her until I am died. Because my mother is a fairy queen in my life. I want graduate from my college so faster, that’s for my angel, for her smile and make she is very proud to me and the last i want make the name of my family will be nice , aamiin.

BODY

I cross the hill and the dale, I pass bush and the brier. I over park then over pale. Through flood and the fire. I do walk everywhere, faster than the moon’s sphere.  I serve the fairy queen to spread the dewdrop her balls upon the trees. The cowslips tall be her pensioners, you see the spots in their petals. Those be rubies, the gifts of fairy queen. In those freckles live their savours. I must go to looking for the dewdrops here, and put out a pearl in every cowslip’s stem.
Over hill, over dale : Describes someone who is willing to go throngh hills and valleys
Thorough bush, thorough brier : Describes about someone who is pass through in the bush brier
Over park, over pale : Not like an ordinary garden that look eyes, its really different, because it is a place of cowslip a Fairy Queen.
Thorough flood, thorough fire : Even though it enters the bush in he state of the flood or fire
I do wander everywhere : Describes someone who has gone everywhere, to get some dew to some flowers and the other trees.
Swifter than the moon's sphere : More faster than rotation of  moon. This is about someone who gone anywhere even more faster than ball moon.
And I serve the Fairy Queen : Describes someone serving a Fairy Queen
To dew her orbs upon the green : A fairy goes to get some dew and make the trees more green than before
The cowslips tall her pensioners be : Cowslips are flowers that are equated with the Fairy Queen
In their gold coats spots you see : By wearing clothes that are extraordinarily beautiful, like a gold clothes with crown
Those be rubies, fairy favours : A fairy want a be rubies as a gift for a Fairy Queen
In those freckles live their savours : A Fairy Queen is a reason about their savours or Fairy Queen is their happy.
I must go seek some dewdrops here : A fairy who goes looking for some dew points for beautiful clowslip’s
And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear. : And gave all the best for Fairy Queen (Cowslip) that everything like the pearl.
William Shakespeare explained that he wandered many places such as hills, dales, bushes, fires and floods to serve or help the fairy queen by spreading dew drops cross the bushes and grass. He tries to make the cowslips smell nice. He walks faster than the rotation of the moon.

CONCLUSION

In my best understanding, the Fairy Song is a poem about a fairy going around and spreading dew drops on the flowers. He is spreading the dew drops for the fairy queen.  A cowslip is the type of the flowers that he is spreading the dew on. To help the fairy queen spreading dewdrops on the flowers, the writer must go everywhere like hills, dales, fires and floods. He spread the dew on every place that he passed and how to respect about samone is old than you, how to loved and respect about the nature around you.
I think the mood that is evident in this poem is joy and pleasure. The fairy wanders everywhere to fulfill her queen's wishes.
For me this symbolizes the person we truly love. In poetry fairy continues to work just to satisfy the fairy queen and I think that's how we show our love to the people we love. We do whatever makes them happy because through their smiles, we get our own happiness.
Cowslips is a type of fairy flower that spreads dew. Shakespeare marks the cowslips of the "Queen's pensioner" which means the Queen gave them something.
He said that he did everything that every fairy (lover) did. He explained that he wandered to various places such as barriers, fires, valleys, parks and floods to quickly serve the Queen (the person we love most) by dropping drops of dew onto the bushes and grass. He did this because it benefited the Fairy Queen and she tried to make every flower smell nice.
For me, to summarize it in real life, it's like we have here a lover and girl. The girl is a kind of dream to be something or wants something to be done and so because she, a lover, wants her to be happy and she helps her get what she wants like how fairies help her to fall dew drops on each cowslips.
And therefore I have to say here, that when you love someone, you will help someone to get what makes them happy. Maybe not for your good but at least, you know that you are capable enough to love even without any return.


REFERENCES

1. Siswantoro. Apresiasi Puisi-puisi Sastra Inggris. Surakarta: Muhammadiyah University Press,2005
2. Barnet,Sylvian,and William E Cain. A Short Guide to Writing about Literture. New York: Longman, 2003.
3. Burton, S. H. , (1994). The Criticism of Poetry. 2nd Edition. London : Longman
4. Selden, Raman, Practicing theory and reading literature.USA: The University of Kentucky, 1989.
5. Bressler, Charles E. , (2007). Literary Criticism: An Introduction to Theory and Practice. 4th Edition . United States : Pearson Education
6. Lois, Tyson. Critical Theory Today. A User Friendly Guide. 2nd edition. London: Routledge, 2006.



THE POEM (Williams Shakespeare)

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.