Robert Browning

Elizabeth Barrett Browning “To George Sand: A Desire” This poem speaks against a society that decided the customary roles for women by dominion men; case in point- line 3 “moaning defiance”. This poem illustrated how women follow their dreams without embarrassment. It opens with an authoritative tribute to sand and looks into the sexual characteristics with this verse, “Thou large-brained woman and large hearted man”. The next few lines of the poem explored the roles of both sexes by…

Robert Browning’s dramatic monologue, “My Last Duchess” decries the inhibition of individual rights which resulted from the Victorian preoccupation with social status and wealth. Victorian social hierarchy demonstrates the social divisions of people based on their occupation and birthright, in a pre-defined specific ladder. The ekphrastic poem elucidates the possessive and cynical nature of the Duke, who objectifies the Duchess in a painting, “that piece a wonder, now”, revealing both the…

argument previously mentioned. There is a dramatic quality in the long sentences, exaggerated punctuation and unsettling rhetorical questions such as ‘Will’t please you rise?’ This combined with such a rigid rhyme scheme adds a sinister quality to what Browning called ‘dramatic lyric’ . When naturalistic dialogue is combined with extremely tight rhyme, this unnerves readers and the result is closer to conversational unease. Conversely, Wheatley does not let rhyme become intrusive to her…

There are three elements which thematically link Robert Browning’s My Last Duchess and Prospice: love, marriage and death. Both poems follow the aftermath of a marriage brought to an end by the death of the wife. In order to comprehend the psyches of the husbands and the manners in which they cope with their partners deaths, a close analysis of their dramatic monologues is required, for it may reveal discrepancies between their words and thoughts. My Last Duchess follows a duke, implied to be…

The short story “Federigo's Falcon” by Giovanni Boccaccio and the poem “How Do I Love Thee” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning both develop the theme of love in their own ways. “Federigo's Falcon” develops the theme of love by telling the story of a man who gave up his most prized possessions twice for the woman he loves. “How Do I Love Thee” develops the theme of love by having the narrator detail how much they love their partner and by describing their unconditional love. Both pieces of writing…

Gatsby is as a victim of the values of a 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…

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley are two novels in which the themes of equality and inequality are explored extensively. The texts are both written by women in 1847 and 1818 respectively and both deal with gender inequality. Jane Eyre is also a social commentary on the injustices and inequalities of the classist Victorian hierarchy whereas Shelley’s novel focuses on the human rejection of unconventionality and the inequalities faced by societies ‘outcasts. The…

Strong, determined yet graceful and refined, the transcendent power of women is an attribute that has been misconstrued throughout centuries. Women have the ability to raise and educate generations all the while possessing a fierceness that allows them to accomplish anything they desire. In modern society, the power of women is limitless. They are free to follow their individual paths and choose their own fate. Although modern women have the opportunity to attain their goals, a woman…

Goblin Market and its readings Christina Rossetti was born in London, in a family with a long history of incredibly gifted artists. Nowadays she is considered to be one of the most important female poets of the Victorian Era as well as to be somehow a feminist. Rossetti was a brilliant and beautiful woman, and she never got married. However, apart from her work as a poet, she devoted her time to work as a volunteer with former prostitutes in a refuge. Actually her most famous poem ‘Goblin…

crucial to the potato because it enables the potato to fight off bacteria and other parasites. The enzyme does so by speeding up the reaction that causes catechol to become an oxidized form of itself called benzoquinone. This reaction creates the browning appearance often seen when potatoes are bruised, or damaged. In addition, two control experiments were run. In each control experiment, one of the components in the first experiment was left out. The hypothesis of this experiment was that a…