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    pretentious, narcissistic society, however, at his core, he desires something richer and sincere. Similarly, Elizabeth Barrett Browning is initially suppressed by the rigid ideals of the Victorian era, however, she undergoes a metamorphosis and gains the courage to defy the conservative values of the 19th century. Through reviewing F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” and Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “Sonnets from the Portuguese” it is apparent that an idealistic love is only achievable once…

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    3) In the poem of If Thou Must Love Me by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, she states in the first two lines of the poem that she wants unconditional and pure love. Secondly, she desires a love that is not based on external qualities because those qualities will change over time with aging. Browning also believes that the love that exists between the souls of the two individuals is deeper and more profound than the love based off of appearance. Lastly, the poet also states that love for the sake of…

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    Shakespeare and Elizabeth Barrett Browning are two poets from different times, and they present their own views of love. They have written two sonnets to express love, which are 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?' and 'How do I love thee?'. Love is demonstrated in many ways in their poems, but the way in how they express love is different from each other. Shakespeare uses imagery of summer to compare it to a woman, who is his lover to demonstrate her beauty. Elizabeth Barrett Browning…

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    I’ve been given an assignment in english where I have to select two or three poems and analysis them. I’ve been searching poems for about a week and there are two particular poems stood out to me. These poems are ‘How do I love thee?’ by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and ‘Annabel Lee’ by Edgar Allan Poe. I chose these poems as they stood out from the crowd and caught my attention. It was the love that drew me in and the tragedy that captured me. The first stanza of the poem begins like a fairy…

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    Elizabeth Barrett Browning is remembered as the most significant female poet of the Victorian era for her ability to passionately blend feminine virtue with social activism, while maintaining a respectable reputation. Barrett Browning was a dedicated wife, mother, human rights advocate, and poet. She was a candidate to replace William Wordsworth in his position of poet laureate, and although she was not chosen, the reality that a female writer in 1850 was considered to speak as a national voice…

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    How do Browning and Villay use language to express strong emotion about Love? Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “Sonnet 43” and Edna St Vincent Millay’s “Sonnet 29” show that love is a life-changing force in a person’s life, and how they are affected differently by Cupid’s arrow. Browning has a sensuous experience of love whereas it has impacted Millay adversely. This essay explores how the twopoets use the sonnet form, imagery and tone to express their contrasting feelings of love. The sonnet…

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    Elizabeth Barrett Browning is one of the most well-known and admired poets of her period. Some of her well-known works include Sonnets from the Portuguese, The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point, A Musical Instrument, and many more. The Sonnet from the Portuguese is an example of an Italian Sonnet, also known as the Petrarchan sonnet. An Italian Sonnet is a sonnet that includes an octave, eight lines, usually following the rhyming scheme abbaabba. Next, the Italian sonnet transitions into a sextet…

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    The Power of Love in “Sonnet 43” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Biographical Material Born in 1806, Victorian poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning spent her early years studying the works of writers such as John Milton and William Shakespeare. Before starting to write herself, she developed a respiratory illness and suffered a spinal injury that resulted in her being labeled as an invalid (Brackett). Despite all of her health issues, Barrett lived a full literary life and published her first major…

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    In “A Musical Instrument,” Elizabeth Barrett Browning uses imagery to explore the cycle of being emotionally damaged and then repaired to indicate that mental destruction can only be partially repaired. Eventually, contentedness is achieved; however, happiness will never be the same as it once was. The imagery of a “dragon-fly on the river” (6) and “golden lilies afloat” (5) are disrupted when the god Pan comes in, wrecking the landscape and “spreading ruin and scattering ban” (3). Although…

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    Sonnet 43 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning is a love poem written in the form of a sonnet. Elizabeth wrote a series of 44 sonnets in secret about the intense love she felt for her husband to be, poet Robert Browning. Valentine by Carol Ann Duffy is a poem that describes what Carol decides to give to a lover for Valentines Day - an onion. The poem explains why it is a powerful gift of love, in comparison to what is usually given on Valentines Day. What’s different about the two poems is the two…

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