Cousin Kate Poem Analysis

From the beginning of the poem you can see the cottage maiden was in love with the Lord she calls him ‘a great Lord’ and asks herself ‘Why did a great Lord find me out to fill my heart with care?’ She’s admitting he filled her heart with care, but by asking why, she’s saying he hurt her. She also says ‘O cousin Kate my love was true.’ Here she’s expressing her sadness and the feeling of betrayal she has for her cousin she also says ‘If you stood where I stand, I would have spat into his face, and not taken his hand’ She’s telling her cousin she’d never have done it to her, she’d have told him to go away regardless of his money and status. I believe she’s trying to tell her cousin she would have loved her enough not do gone with …show more content…
In my opinion I think the cottage maiden feels as though she has been tricked by the Lord by his wealth and title and that he has abused the privileges he has to get her into bed. The cottage maiden also expresses sadness at what she might have been had he not disgraced her ‘might have been a dove.’ She uses the image of a dove in order to emphasize her …show more content…
He put her on when he needed her and when he was finished he threw her away, he treated her like an ‘object’ he wore here then threw her away. The use of the simile changed me like a glove shows how thoughtless the lord is. In the Victorian times, when this poem was wrote, men wore white glove, which can become dirty very quickly, so they got changed regularly. When you change a pair of gloves you do not put thought into how they feel, meaning the lord did not care how the Maiden was