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To lead a solitary life as a subservient wife and mother was not satisfactory for writers like Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Virginia Woolf. One of the most popular female poets of the Victorian era, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, illustrated "a woman's struggle to achieve artistic and economical independence in modern society" (Longman P.1858). Many Victorian critics were shocked by Barrett

In both of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poems, The Cry of the Children and The Feminine Education of Aurora Leigh, the role of gender is evident. Browning brings attention to the causes and nature of women's subordination to men in society in an attempt to remove that subordination through awareness. There were limited educational and employment opportunities available for women, and Browning aims to challenge these issues of gender inequality because she feels women should have equal opportunity

"Aurora Leigh" The story "Aurora Leigh" is the story of a fictional woman poet. This story was Elizabeth Barret Browning's greatest achievement. This was the first major poem in English Literature in which the heroine, just like the author was a woman writer. This story had a lot to do with Aurora as a rising poet in a society that did not except woman as artists. Society set a restriction on women because of the role that was put upon them. Society basically sets the women into an imprisonment

opinions. “A Man’s Requirements,” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and “A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment” are two poems with distinct attitudes about love that contain different literary approaches. In both of the poems, love is addressed from a different perspective, producing the difference in expectation and presentation, but both suggest the women are subservient in the relationships. In “A Man’s Requirements,” Elizabeth Barrett Browning uses repetition, flowery language

Wordsworth should be, “The spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.” Poems such as A Dream, by Edgar Allan Poe, and How do I love thee, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, are perfect examples of good poetry, they have very different views of the same subject, which give a powerful effect on the reader. The poem, How do I love thee, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, is about

Reason versus Revelation: The Continued Fight for Educational Rights A woman’s job is to cook, clean, and bear children. Although it may not remain true now, many thought this for most of history. A woman had her duty to her husband and that served as almost all of her worth. During the Enlightenment, some women began to question this norm and to voice their unhappiness. The Enlightenment period was an intellectual movement that sought to reform society and advance knowledge. Even with all of the

Using Literature to Promote Social Change and Personal Acceptance Does literature have the power to change the way people think? This is the challenge that Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Charles Baudelaire take on with their poems “The Cry of the Children” and “To the Reader.” Both poems contain an abundance of imagery and, despite the differing purposes, each author uses the same type of imagery to convey a message. The difference arises in the way they use the imagery, which stems from their very

works usually describe the condition of their period directly or indirectly. The two authors, Roberts Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, also expose the culture and the condition of the society of the Victorian era through their works. The authors are married couple authors of the Victorian era. Roberts Browning’s a typical literary work is My Last Duchess. Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s one of the most famous work is Aurora Leigh. In the two poems, the authors mainly focus on the different gender

Elizabeth Barrett Browning Good afternoon and welcome to the State Library Series of lectures on poetry and power where we celebrate the contribution of poets to our cultural heritage. My name is Sammy Whitting and today I will focus on a poet who addresses the typically Victorian concern being morality and to more depth, the oppression of children and slavery, among other social injustices through Christian themes. I am speaking of course about one half of the Browning power poet couple, the 19th

acknowledged and admired more for their independence, courage, and accomplishments than Elizabeth Barrett Browning. She passionately wrote about the issues of social injustice and later on in her life she expressed her political opinions on the struggle with Italy and Austria. Elizabeth Barrett was born at Coxhoe Hall, England, on March 6, 1806. She is the daughter of Mary Graham Clarke and Edward Moulton Barrett, who obtained large amounts of money from his Jamaican sugar plantations. Elizabeth lived a