Growth of a Poet’s Mind and Self-Regard It’s fairly easy to figure Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Aurora Leigh is the female version of William Wordsworth’s The Prelude. After all, Browning and Wordsworth were close companions. Similar to The Prelude, Aurora Leigh is essentially about a woman’s journey in finding her inner poetic self. Browning and Wordsworth’s thematic sense with one’s self image is different in that Aurora Leigh claims more importance of a woman poet’s inner and artistic growth as well as economic independence, whereas The Prelude focuses on the importance of the natural world and in that finding justification of one’s poetic self.
The Prelude is a true autobiography written from Wordsworth, himself. It follows Wordsworth’s …show more content…
He notes that this is not only for himself but to prove to his friends that he is finally, what he considers, a true poet. This autobiography of Wordsworth is also an example of the poet on the journey to seek a point of stability in himself and continuality in the progression with change in his ever busy life. Wordsworth has major guilt over the fact that his past experiences distracted him from the natural beauty but says they were ultimately productive and worth it, “…shrink back/From every combination that might aid/The tendency, too potent in itself,/Of habit to enslave the mind, I mean/Oppress it by the laws of vulgar sense,/And substitute a universe of death,/The falsest of all worlds, in place of that/ Which is divine and true…” (“The Prelude” XIII …show more content…
Aurora Leigh focuses on the hardships women writers have to face during the Victorian Era. Aurora ultimately finds her inner self by finally capitulating and coming to terms with the fact that her personal and poetic life and accommodate with love. The Prelude focuses on the ultimate importance of the natural world and how it can help one find their inner state of being. Wordsworth finds his inner self by realizing that his poetry and his inner self are encompassed by passion as well as less observant, natural,
The Prelude is a true autobiography written from Wordsworth, himself. It follows Wordsworth’s …show more content…
He notes that this is not only for himself but to prove to his friends that he is finally, what he considers, a true poet. This autobiography of Wordsworth is also an example of the poet on the journey to seek a point of stability in himself and continuality in the progression with change in his ever busy life. Wordsworth has major guilt over the fact that his past experiences distracted him from the natural beauty but says they were ultimately productive and worth it, “…shrink back/From every combination that might aid/The tendency, too potent in itself,/Of habit to enslave the mind, I mean/Oppress it by the laws of vulgar sense,/And substitute a universe of death,/The falsest of all worlds, in place of that/ Which is divine and true…” (“The Prelude” XIII …show more content…
Aurora Leigh focuses on the hardships women writers have to face during the Victorian Era. Aurora ultimately finds her inner self by finally capitulating and coming to terms with the fact that her personal and poetic life and accommodate with love. The Prelude focuses on the ultimate importance of the natural world and how it can help one find their inner state of being. Wordsworth finds his inner self by realizing that his poetry and his inner self are encompassed by passion as well as less observant, natural,