write about a poem/ blog 50

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. 

          This poem is a description of a fairy's job in A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare. It works as a poem because it is separated into lines but not in a paragraph, and it has poetry elements in it such as rhyming and rhythm. In this poem, the fairy described her life in a very artsy and magical way, of wandering around and drop dews on plantations to serve the Fairy Queen, Titania. Unlike humans who have to work all day for income, fairies just fly around the hills, the dales, into bushes and flowers and dew the plants. It seems like the fairies are like butterflies and bees that don't have to do any hard work and to worry about anything, which made the human talking to her very jealous.

          Shakespeare used many figurative language, such as parallelism in the first four lines and metaphor in the last few lines. He used the words "over" and "thorough" to describe how freely these fairies are, and how relaxing and meanwhile dangerous their working environments are. Besides the parallelism, he had rhymed the poem as he did in every other line he wrote in his script. He had used a lot of metaphor in this poem too, like flowers to rubies and dews to pearls. These make the world of fairy livelier and sound more magical, because flowers and water are just two very normal thing in human's world. Besides that, Shakespeare had also used personification for the purpose of showing the difference of human's world from the fairy's world. He described the cowslips as humans, and gave them human characters--ears, so the fairy could hang the dews as earrings. 

          This poem gives the audiences a wonderful picture of the exotic world of fairies, and created a realistic but magical environment for the audiences. Before I read this poem, I could hardly believe that even tiny little flowers have their thoughts and characters of human. I would love to believe in a fairy-tale like world that was created by shakespeare, rather than the scientific explanation of how dews are formed over night, because shakespeare had demonstrated everything too beautiful.