of which can be found in the works of Christopher Marlowe and Sir Walter Ralegh. Another potent form of love is pure love which is unconditional and timeless as expressed by Shakespeare and Elizabeth Berrett Browning. On a different note‚ a twisted love is flawed and bound to fail as revealed by Robert Browning. In Marlowe’s "The Passionate Shepherd and His Love" and Ralegh’s "The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd‚" an idealistic yet inadequate love is displayed between a Shepherd and his Lover. Love
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John Keats also wrote lyric poetry. Following is an example from his lyric poem "Ode on a Grecian Urn": What men or gods are these? What maidens loth? What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape? What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy? Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s famous "How Do I Love Thee" is yet another famous example of a lyric poem: How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach‚ when feeling out of sight For the ends of
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There can be no reduction of Robert Browning to optimism or pessimism. His renowned dramatic monologues are intense psychological studies often mad and horrific minds. In Fra Lippo Lippi‚ for instance‚ Browning takes a very unsavory character and challenges readers to discover the goodness‚ or life-affirming qualities. In addition‚ there is a satiric tone to this as it mocks the speaker’s contemporaneous judges. Browning optimism is not based on any discount of the suffering of life‚ nor on
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which most people crave. Pablo Neruda’s poem “I Crave Your Mouth‚ Your Voice‚ Your Hair‚” describes how someone is hungry for love. Other poets express this craving for love as fatal as others will tend to kill to be loved. In “Sonnet 43” by Elizabeth B. Browning and “Sonnet 116” by Shakespeare also express how powerful love can be. Although there are many differences‚ they share similarities with the devices they used to convey their messages. They both used imagery to describe the measurement of love
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Robert Browning - Biography Robert Browning was born on May 7‚ 1812‚ in Camberwell (a suburb of London)‚ the first child of Robert and Sarah Anna Browning. His mother was a fervent Evangelical and an accomplished pianist. Mr. Browning had angered his own father and forgone a fortune: the poet’s grandfather had sent his son to oversee a West Indies sugar plantation‚ but the young man had found the institution of slavery so abhorrent that he gave up his prospects and returned home‚ to become a clerk
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AN OUTLINE OF ENGLISH LITERATURE PERIOD OLD ENGLISH HISTORICAL BACKGROUND The period of Anglo Saxon: The Age of Settlement (440-1066) Before the arrival of Anglo Saxon‚ Britain was under Roman Empire (55 BC – AD 440) MIDDLE ENGLISH ± 1150 - ± 1400 - The Duke of Normandy from France became the king in Britain and gave influences to British Kingdom. - The use of French – high class of society The use of English – common people ±1400 - ± 1550 - The period in literature to mark
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English Victorian Robert Browning was a poet and playwright‚ mastering in dramatic monologue and narrative criticisms of art‚ beauty‚ and the natural world. Born May 7th‚ 1812 into the reign of Queen Victoria‚ society had transformed into a romantic hub from a rationalistic one‚ consisting on decisions based on personal moral standing‚ a movement of the preceding Georgian period. Browning’s sadistic‚ troubled characters‚ and uncomfortable dark humor are intriguing‚ and the colorful placement of words
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Our interest in the parallels between the great Gatsby and Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s poetry is further enhanced by consideration of their marked differences in textual form- Evaluate this statement in light of your comparative study of texts- Context and textual form have played a significant role in determining the parallels between ‘The Great Gatsby’ and ‘Sonnets of the Portuguese’‚ through the use of language and expression appropriate to the time. The Great Gatsby (TGG) was developed
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning was an social and political activist for many things‚ but most of all children’s rights. During the Victorian Age‚ Britain became the first industrialized country on the world. Much of the work was in coal mines and factories‚ causing long hours and hard labor. During this time period child labor laws did not exist and majority of the time they were put to work‚ especially if the family had several mouths to feed. (Mattord) The 1842 Royal Commission reports is where Elizabeth
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Sample analysis of a poem The Sunderland Children (by Alice Meynell) (On the 183 Sunderland children who lost their lives in a panic at the Victoria Hall‚ 16th June 1883) This was the surplus childhood‚ held as cheap! (10) Not worth the care which shields (6) The lambs that are to stay‚ the corn to reap – (10) The promise of the fields. (6) The nations guards her future. Fruit and grass (10) And vegetable life (6) Are fostered league by league. But oh‚ the mass (10) Of childhood
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