CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF HIMACHAL PRADESH [Established under the Central Universities Act 2009] PO Box: 21‚ Dharamshala‚ District Kangra - 176215 (HP) www.cuhimachal.ac.in Course Instructor: Dr KBS Krishna Course Code: EEL 502 Course Name: Victorianism Credits Equivalent: 04 Credits (One credit is equivalent to 10 hours of lectures / organised classroom activity / contact hours; 5 hours of laboratory work / practical / field work / Tutorial / teacher-led activity and 15 hours of other workload
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In a letter written in 1857 by poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning‚ readers learn that she wants Napoleon III to pardon a French writer (Victor Hugo) after he constructed writings that deemed critical of the French Government. To express her argument to Napoleon‚ she used anecdotes‚ juxtaposition‚ and tone to try and change the ruler’s mind. First of all‚ Browning gives a simple anecdote between lines 12 and 27 to show her opinions on the matter. She says “not for myself… reading with wet eyes and swelling
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How Deep Is Love? Passion and love are contained within the heart. This exemplifies the declaration of love written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. “How Do I Love Thee? Let me Count the Ways” is a poem including rhyme and sentimental meaning. This sonnet‚ in iambic pentameter‚ portrays the love that Browning felt for her husband and how that love will never be destroyed by any power. Answering the simple question‚ “how do I love thee?” sets the basis of the poem. The narrator of the poem is that
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Not only from woman to woman‚ but from poet to poet‚ Elizabeth Barrett Browning felt a connection of reverence and utmost admiration with self-titled George Sand. Barrett Browning went to the lengths of seemingly serenading Sand in her two poems “To George Sand: A Desire” and “To George Sand: A Recognition.” In “To George Sand: A Desire‚” Barret Browning addresses Sand as “Thou large-brained woman and large hearted man‚” (line 1). Sand‚ whose identity as a woman was kept a secret in order to avoid
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s is one of the most recognised and revolutionary Victorian women poets her poetry is some of the most respected of that time. The themes Browning discusses in her poetry range from love‚ motherhood and death to poems which embody political and social themes. Barrett was a poet of the ‘Romantic Period’ and as a result her poetry is saturated with symbols of love in particular she expresses her love for close companions. ‘Lionized by her contemporaries‚ Elizabeth Barrett
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Sonnet 43 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806-1861 The poet begins by saying “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways‚” by which she starts off with a rhetorical question‚ because there is no ‘reason’ for love. Rather than using “why” she enforces this meaning. But then she goes on saying that she will count the ways‚ which is a contradiction against her first line. In the rest of the poem she is explaining how much she loves. In the second line she says “I love thee to the depth & breath &
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Scott Fitzgerald and Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning are influenced by their varying context in their portrayal of love in their respective texts. Both authors explore the concept of love using various language features such as metaphors the use of irony. The Great Gatsby explores how the desire for the American Dream has taken prevalence over romantic love during post world war 1. This is contrasted with Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnets from the Portuguese where we are
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning is a Victorian poet that is renowned for her poetry that focuses on the social conscience of people in western culture. One of Browning’s most controversial poems is called “A Curse for a Nation‚” which is a didactic poem that aims to persuade its target audience to speak out against the slave trade. This didactic poem uses ethos‚ logos‚ and pathos as forms of persuasion. The target audience for this poem is the United States because at the time that Browning wrote this
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Sonnet 43‚ also known as "How Do I Love Thee" is a literary classic written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning in 1850. This poem follows a Petrarch sonnet structure‚ even though she lived closer to Shakespear’s time. This poem explores all the ways the author loves someone‚ it even goes through almost all stages of life. Her love is talked about on an everyday level‚ as well as on a spiritual level. Her love‚ she says‚ will even continue on after death. This sonnet uses a wide range of figurative devices
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Browning used repetition in her poem The Cry of the Children to show the pain‚ and suffering that children had to go through as they were forced to work. She was in distraught about the sad faces of the children who were forced to work in mines and factories‚ and decided to make a political point by writing The Cry of the Children against the enslavement of children. She uses repetition to get the thoughts in the mind of the reader to point out the signs in order to stop the enslavement of children
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