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Chronic Illness In The Victorian Era

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Victorian Era Essay (Prompt 3)

Imagine what it feels like when frustrating waves of pain sweep through the body. This unpleasantness can be felt by writer Elizabeth Barrett Browning, who was known to have some sort of chronic illness in her lifetime. Much of Browning’s work has a dreary and pessimistic theme to it. Browning was able to use experiences such as chronic illness or personal romance (or lack of) to enhance the writing and provide perspective within each text. In sonnets 1, 28, and 43, Browning uses a form of sonnet writing called Italian (or Petrarchan), which uses a rhyme scheme of ‘aabbaabb’ or ‘cdecde’; this adds a rhyme to the last word of each line that subsequently matches with its respective letter. Another part of the

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