The Victorian period brought many innovations and changes. However writers like Elizabeth Barrett Browning attacked the social conditions in their poetry. Poems like the Cry of the Children focused on external conformity and social responsibility in Europe. Political poetry took readers to the shocking life of sweatshops and urban poor. Reforms played a major role in trying to figure out the conflict between those in political and economic power and the common masses, laborers and the poor. Morals and money were also a major key in the characteristics of Victorian Literature. The Poem the Cry of the Children, shined light between the relationships of mothers and their children. The poem also showed the awareness of what was really happening
