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The first line of the poem immediately establishes
who the poem is about. We are presented with an
image of the ‘girl’ through the poet’s imagination:
she is ‘among horses and wide fields’ and is keen on
horse-riding. The man she will possibly marry is
evocatively described as having a ‘stubbled chin’
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and a ‘slow gentle smile’. Then there is a shift to a
time after her fiancé has died. The poet sits with her
in a bar discussing her ‘story’. Her dreams of
happiness with her potential husband have been
destroyed and she is questioning whether she can
really envisage finding happiness again with the
decent but much older local farmer who wants to
marry her.