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    Telephone” by W.H. Auden and “How do I Love Thee?” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning are both poems that are expressing the author’s love for someone. However, with the aforementioned poems, the poets are in a different point in their experience of love. While Browning is writing for someone in that moment, Auden is writing in mourning for someone. Together, these poems show the power of love through life and after death. In “How do I Love Thee?” Browning is expressing how she loves someone, to…

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    sociocultural, economic and historical contexts. This idea is clearly seen through the comparison of the novel, ‘The Great Gatsby’ by F Scott Fitzgerald and the Sonnets of the Portuguese, XIV and XXII by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Regardless of the diverse contexts and perspectives of Browning and Fitzgerald, it is highly evident that their exploration of human nature 's value of love and hope are indeed shared between the texts. The enduring value of love is clearly represented in the novel…

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    Shakespeare and Browning Beg The Question In Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnet 43 and William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18, both authors describe the immense love they have for another person. Elizabeth Barrett Browning was one of her most popular authors during the Victorian Era of English literature. William Shakespeare was the most popular author during the Elizabethan Era. The first line of the Elizabeth’s poem asks the question, “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways!” (595). After that…

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    perspectives of love and reason in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ‘The Great Gatsby’ and Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s poetry, ‘Sonnet’s from the Portuguese’ are shaped through their historical, social and personal context. Both F. Scott Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Barrett Browning accentuate the perceptions of reason through the transformative and obsessive love within the Victorian Era and the Post War Jazz Age. Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s poetry, ‘Sonnet’s from the Portuguese’ explores the spirituality…

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    “How Do I Love Thee” , by Elizabeth Barrett Browning , is an English sonnet , written in 1845. It has fourteen lines in total. It has ten syllables per line. The type of poem supports the theme of the poem. Sonnets are considered the poetic language of love. The type of poem helps support the passion in the poem and magnifies it even more. The love in this poem , would not be properly displayed if it was written in any other form of poetry. The rhyme scheme for “How Do I Love Thee” is not the…

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    Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “To George Sand: A Desire” serves to explicate Browning’s admiration for George Sand, a successful female writer, by underscoring that which makes Sand powerful. “To George Sand: A Recognition,” a companion piece to “A Desire,” concerns itself not only with Sand’s character traits but also with evidencing the actual challenges Sand faced to become the writer she was. Because of this, my primary inspiration and the poem I chose to imitate was “A Recognition.” “To…

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    Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning both use dramatic monologues as a poetical device to capture a reader’s attention and subvert the status quo of political notions that they rail against in order to achieve their ideals of race/gender/class equality. However, their approach to utilizing dramatic monologue to achieve this goal is substantially different. The difference of tone, context, and form of the dramatic monologue are vividly showcased in the contrast of Barrett’s “The Cry of…

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    It is interesting that in both Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning poems, art and it’s meaning is at upmost importance. Art allows them both to escape reality, which allows them to view their life in a different. Each poet portrays to the reader that art defines them as a person, but each in distinct ways. In the poem My Last Duchess, Robert Browning writes about a fictional piece of art that has value to him. He emphasizes that the main painting on the wall is of his deceased wife,…

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    letter to Napoleon III, Elizabeth Barrett Browning takes a strong and clever stance as to why the Emperor should pardon the great poet, Victor Hugo. With wit and ease, Elizabeth Barrett Browning using the rhetorical strategies of pathos, repetition and persona to petition Napoleon’s stance of hatred for Victor Hugo. Browning utilizes the appeal of pathos in order to get Napoleon on “her side” and, in turn, make her petition more effective. In the opening statement, Browning states, “I am only a…

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    different language. One of the most popular forms of expressing love from person to person is by poems or poetry. Elizabeth Bishop and Elizabeth Barret Browning are two poets who have shown what love is to them in the poems “One Art” and “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways”, respectively. Bishop present love as a form of art that can be mastered by the practice of loss, whereas Browning gave different ways of love. Both authors, express their love but in different ways and circumstances,…

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